"The Paper Gauze Ballerina"
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Sophie W. Miklos
Biographical History
Sopie Miklos is a native of Valea Lui Mihai, Romania. She lived in the ghetto in Oradea, Romania, (Nagyvárad) before being sent to Auschwitz where her parents were killed. She was selected as a dancer and participated in a theater production in the camp. Miklos was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The transcript of "The paper gauze ballerina" was created by Sophie Miklos from an audiotape recording of her own testimony. The audiotape testimony was recorded in 1959.
Scope and Content
Contains information about Sophie Miklos and her experiences of persecution in Romania, deportation from the Oradea (Nagyvárad, Hungary) ghetto, imprisonment at Auschwitz, and liberation by the Red Army.
People
- Miklos, Sophie Weisz.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
Subjects
- Oradea (Romania)
- Jewish children.
- Jewish ghettos--Romania--Oradea.
- Antisemitism.
- Jews--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Romania.
- Women.
- Valea lui Mihai (Romania)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography.
- Jews--Romania--Valea lui Mihai--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Death marches.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Escapes.
- Railroads.
- Dance.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
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