Denise B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2172) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, October 15, 1992.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Paulette G. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-2170), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Videotape testimony of Denise B., who was born in Paris, France in 1934. She remembers a home filled with love and happiness; her father's arrest in 1941 (she never saw him again); she and her sister being sent to hide with a French family in Seiches-sur-le-Loir (her mother remained behind with their baby brother); their conversion to Catholicism; comfort provided by church ritual; liberation by United States troops; returning with an uncle to Paris; learning their mother was taken from Drancy to Majdanek where she perished (her brother survived); living in a Jewish orphanage in Andrésy; emigrating with her sister to the United States; difficulties adjusting to a new culture; marriage and return to France; her son's birth; divorce; return to the United States; her second marriage; and her daughter's birth. Mrs. B. discusses difficulties in relationships resulting from her experiences; trying to resolve these through a support group; her close relationship with her daughter; and their sense that their roles are reversed resulting from the war years.

June 01, 2002

Denise B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2172). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Denise B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2172). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)