Roni B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-489) [videorecording] / interviewed by Judie Wayman, September 6, 1984.

Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 28 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Berenson, Roni. Interview 23012. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Roni B., who was born in 1930 in Berlin, Germany. She recounts antisemitic harassment and restrictions, including her father not being able to treat non-Jews (he was a dentist); some non-Jews sneaking in for treatment; a non-Jewish butcher providing them with meat; changing schools frequently; Kristallnacht; relatives emigrating to several destinations; the war's outbreak; bribing an official to obtain visas; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, San Sebastián, and Barcelona; emigrating by ship to the United States in August 1941; and receiving letters from relatives via the Red Cross. Ms. B. discusses relatives who remained in Germany; not sharing her story with her children until they were adults; her family receiving restitution; visiting Berlin with her husband and daughter as guests of Berlin; and discomfort when she meets Germans. She shows photographs and documents, and reads family letters.

June 01, 2002

Roni B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-489). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Roni B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-489). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)