Rose M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rose M., who was born in Radzyn? Podlaski, Poland in 1923. She recalls German invasion; fleeing to S?awatycze in January; returning home; marriage in spring 1942; hiding during round-ups; escaping when they were discovered; finding her husband and mother at a friend's house; learning her father, brother, and other relatives had been caught and killed; working with her mother on a farm; returning to Radzyn?; reunion with her husband; hiding with farmers; going to the Miedzyrzec ghetto; her son's birth and immediate death; learning her husband and brothers had been killed; deportation with her mother and relatives to Majdanek in spring 1943; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); slave labor; forming a group with others from her city; public hangings; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in July; receiving extra food from a guard; prisoner suicides; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in fall 1944; liberation by British troops; depression; traveling to ?o?dz?, Warsaw, and Radzyn? seeking surviving relatives; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage in 1946; living in Frankfurt; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. M. discusses relations among prisoner groups in the camps; the importance to her survival of being with friends; sharing her story with her children when they were older; continuing pervasive memories; and difficulty believing what she lived through.
Extent and Medium
8 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- M., Rose, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Refugee camps.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Jews -- Poland -- Miedzyrzec Podlaski.
- Children -- Death.
- Childbirth in Jewish ghettos.
- Husband -- Death.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Miedzyrzec Podlaski ghetto.
- Poland.
- Miedzyrzec Podlaski (Poland)
- Sławatycze (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Radzyń Podlaski (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat