Mania W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mania W., who was born in Myszko?w, Poland in 1922. She recalls German invasion; fleeing east with her family; returning home; ghettoization in Zawiercie; her parents' deportation; hiding with a friend in a bunker during a round-up; her friend inadvertently killing her baby daughter while trying to keep her quiet; a non-Jewish friend bringing her food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1941; slave labor in a gravel pit; her cousins arranging a privileged kitchen position for her; hospitalization for typhus; a friend bringing her food and removing her from the hospital before a selection; hearing screams from the gas chambers while working in the Canada Kommando; a death march and train transport to Ravensbru?ck, then Malchow; slave labor in a munitions factory; sabotaging her machine; liberation by the Swedish Red Cross; staying in a convent, then Malmba?ck, Sweden; marriage; her daughter's birth; emigration to the United States in 1953; and assistance from the Joint. Ms. W. relates details of camp life.

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