Rachel B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2283) [videorecording] / interviewed by Janet Brown and Susanne Glaser, May 17, 1992.

Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1992.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 27 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Bodner, Rachel. Interview 35497. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Rachel B., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1928. She recalls living in a Jewish section; anti-Semitic incidents; learning respect and honesty from her father; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to northern France with her family; realizing the danger was equal there and returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions including expulsion from school two weeks before her graduation; her older sister's deportation; viewing a round-up of Jews on their street when small children were smashed against buildings, resulting in her mother's decision to place her children in hiding; living with her sister as non-Jews in a convent in Louvain; the Mother Superior's discovery that they were Jewish (eventually seventeen Jewish girls were hidden there); having to move due to Allied bombings in May 1944; hiding with a non-Jewish family; and liberation by British troops in September 1944. Mrs. B. recounts her reunion with her mother; learning her father and older sister were killed in Auschwitz; marriage; emigration with her husband to the United States in 1947; and her continuing relationship with the Mother Superior of the convent who was honored as one of the "Righteous among the Nations" by Yad Vashem.

June 01, 2002

Rachel B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2283). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rachel B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2283). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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