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Mrs. B. describes four weeks in the ghetto; Hungarian cruelty toward the Jews; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents who were murdered immediately; her inability to mourn for them then; her strong will to survive; collecting corpses for transfer to D lager; supervising the children's block where they played and sang; the sudden disappearance of the approximately one thousand children; and learning they had been taken to the gas chamber. She recalls being saved by a kapo; transfer to Zittau, Germany to work in an airplane factory; more humane treatment there; liberation by Russians on May 5, 1945; traveling to Czechoslovakia and the kindness with which they were treated; return to Mukachevo; mourning, as she began to realize her losses; smuggling herself to Germany; three years in a displaced persons camp where she married; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mrs. B. discusses her resolve never to be hungry again; her satisfaction with life; her daughter's emotional problems as a child of survivors; her nightmares; and the importance of remembering the Holocaust. (Abstract)","This testimony is open with permission. (Conditions Governing Access)","Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive. (Conditions Governing Use)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["1984-03-05 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale (Producer)","B., Vera, 1918- (Interviewee)","B, Vera (653) (Interviewee)","Strochlic, Kathy (Interviewer)","Rosenfeld, Rena (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["1 Videocassettes (3/4\" U-Matic)","1:02:23 duration_HH_MM_SS_mmm"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["B., Vera, 1918- (Person or Corporate Body)","Auschwitz (Concentration camp) (Person or Corporate Body)","Zittau (Concentration camp) (Person or Corporate Body)","Holocaust survivors (topical)","Video tapes (topical)","Women (topical)","Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives (topical)","World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish (topical)","World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities (topical)","Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects (topical)","Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects (topical)","Concentration camps -- Songs and music (topical)","Nightmares (topical)","Forced labor (topical)","Jewish ghettos (topical)","Jews -- Ukraine -- Mukacheve (topical)","Czechoslovakia (geographic)","Mukacheve (Ukraine) (geographic)","Brno (Czech Republic) (geographic)","Zittau (Germany) (geographic)","Oral histories (document genres) (genre_form)","Postwar effects (topical)","Aid by non-Jews (topical)","Survivor child relations (topical)","Hungarian occupation (topical)","Munkács ghetto (geographic)","Concentration camp inmates (topical)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["New York, N.Y. : (Place of Recording)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (Primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Identifier"]},"value":{"en":["mssa.hvt.0250 (EAD ID)","946947 (Orbis bib)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["Videotape testimony of Vera B., who was born in a small town in Slovakia in 1918. She relates moving to Mukachevo in 1924; a happy childhood; attending college in Brno; expulsion in 1939 due to German occupation; Hungarian occupation of Mukachevo; conscription of males into Hungarian labor battalions; German occupation in 1944; and formation of the ghetto. Mrs. B. describes four weeks in the ghetto; Hungarian cruelty toward the Jews; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her parents who were murdered immediately; her inability to mourn for them then; her strong will to survive; collecting corpses for transfer to D lager; supervising the children's block where they played and sang; the sudden disappearance of the approximately one thousand children; and learning they had been taken to the gas chamber. She recalls being saved by a kapo; transfer to Zittau, Germany to work in an airplane factory; more humane treatment there; liberation by Russians on May 5, 1945; traveling to Czechoslovakia and the kindness with which they were treated; return to Mukachevo; mourning, as she began to realize her losses; smuggling herself to Germany; three years in a displaced persons camp where she married; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mrs. B. discusses her resolve never to be hungry again; her satisfaction with life; her daughter's emotional problems as a child of survivors; her nightmares; and the importance of remembering the Holocaust.","This testimony is open with permission.","Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. 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