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• Author/Creator:B., Renee, 1927-
  
• Title:Renee B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1496) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Lucille B. Ritvo, April 22, 1991.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1496)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Related publication: Deep shadows / by Renee L. Brandeis. -- New York : Irvington Publishers, c1989.
  Associated material: Brandeis, Renee. Interview 24620. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Renee B., who was born in Duisburg, Germany, in 1927. Mrs. B. recalls her discomfort as the only Jew at a Catholic primary school; older Jewish friends who left Germany in the 1930s; fleeing with her parents on Kristallnacht to a former housekeeper's home; commuting daily to a Jewish school in Cologne after 1939; detention in a slaughterhouse before deportation; and arrival at the Rīga ghetto in December 1941. She describes her family's narrow escape from a selection; seeing the bodies of Jewish policemen executed for an attempted uprising; transfer to a railroad work camp at Priekule in mid-1943; surviving a selection with her mother (her father was killed); evacuation by barge to Stutthof in summer 1944; transfer to another railroad camp at Stolp; separation from her mother after their march back to Stutthof; a death march; being placed aboard mined boats on the Baltic; and liberation by British troops after she came ashore at Neustadt. She recounts developing a story of Swiss origins which she told postwar acquaintances to avoid explaining her Holocaust experience. The testimony includes Mrs. B's written narratives, poetry and painting.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Renee B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1496). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:B., Renee, 1927-
  Stutthof (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jews--Latvia--Rīga.
  Jewish ghettos.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Families.
  Forced labor.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry.
  Kristallnacht, 1938.
  Death marches.
  Germany.
  Duisburg (Germany)
  Cologne (Germany)
  Düsseldorf (Germany)
  Neustadt in Holstein (Germany)
  Priekule (Latvia)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Child survivors.
  Crystal Night, 1938.
  Postwar effects.
  Stolp (Germany : Concentration camp)
  Rīga ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Occupation:Artists.
  
• Also listed under:Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
  Ritvo, Lucille B., 1920-.