Philip N. Backstrom Survivor Lecture Series. 1993. Rena Chernoff

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Title:
Philip N. Backstrom Survivor Lecture Series. 1993. Rena Chernoff
Title (alt.):
Rena Chernoff : 1993
Description:
Holocaust survivor Rena Chernoff discusses her experiences during the Holocaust as part of the Philip N. Backstrom Survivor Lecture Series held during Northeastern University's annual Holocaust Awareness Week. Chernoff, born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, was a young child when the war began. After being deported from hometown's ghetto and doing forced labor with her parents in the Blizyn concentration camp, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In Auschwitz-Birkenau, she and her cousin survived by living in a barracks with twins who underwent medical experiments and she was later reunited with her mother. Her cousin, Frieda Grayzel, also spoke multiple times as part of the Backstrom lecture series.
Creator:
Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.). Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Committee
Speaker:
Chernoff, Rena
Date:
1993
Format:
Film/Video
Genre:
video recordings (physical artifacts)
Location:
Northeastern University Library
Archives and Special Collections
(A67) Rena Chernoff and Ben Jacobs, Location 89/4 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Committee records (A67)
Series:
Holocaust awareness series. Backstrom Holocaust survivors speakers series ; 1993
Subjects:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives
Jewish ghettos
Child survivor
Treblinka (Concentration camp)
Blizyn (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Mengele, Josef, 1911-1979
Robota, Roza
Chernoff, Rena
Places:
Warsaw (Poland)
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
Extent:
01:06:42
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20204931
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Language:
English
Notes:
Part of lecture series, "Holocaust Awareness Committee: a time to bear witness."
Identifier:
TLC_0038