Dora R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1230) [videorecording] / interviewed by Selma Dubnick and Bernard Weinstein, May 31, 1988.

Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1988.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 13 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Roth, Dora. Interview 31483. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Dora R., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1918. She recalls her marriage, her son's birth; ghettoization; their former non-Jewish maid bringing them food; transfer to the Tarnów ghetto; her husband being taken in a round-up (she never saw him again); her son's violent murder in front of her; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a brief encounter with her sister (she never saw her again); transfer to Bomlitz; forced labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops near Potsdam; traveling to Kraków; meeting her future husband and his daughter (they had been hidden by Poles); living in Linz and Munich; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. Ms. R. discusses continuing fears resulting from her experiences; psychiatric care after arrival in the U.S.; sharing her story with her son; and discussing her hiding experience with her adopted daughter.

June 01, 2002

Dora R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1230). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Dora R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1230). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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