Miriam H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Miriam H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1912. She recalls her marriage in 1938; her daughter's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; a round-up in which her parents, daughter, and niece were taken (she never saw them again); incarceration with her husband and sister in P?aszo?w; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz; their transfer to Theresienstadt about a year later; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Prague; reunion with her husband in Krako?w; living in Germany for four years; the birth of a child; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. H. discusses pointless slave labor in the camps; her husband's illnesses resulting from the camp experience; not sharing her story with her children, unless they ask, for fear of disturbing them; reluctance to meet with other survivors because she does not want to talk or hear about the camps; and pervasive bad memories. She shows pictures and notes her sorrow that she does not even have a photograph of her murdered daughter.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- H., Miriam, -- 1912-
Corporate Bodies
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Sisters.
- Husband and wife.
- Postwar experiences.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Children -- Death.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Postwar effects.
- Survivor-child relations.
Places
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Kraków ghetto.
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat