Marta E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Marta E., a Romani, who was born in East Prussia, Germany. She remembers moving to Berlin with her family at age six; one brother's deportation to Dachau and another's to Buchenwald; receiving both brothers' ashes with a notice that they had died from pneumonia; examination with her siblings by "race scientists"; deportation with her family to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager) at Auschwitz/Birkenau; her father and uncle being beaten to death by an SS officer; her mother being beaten by a Romani kapo; her sister arranging their transfer to Ravensbru?ck; beatings, killings, appels, and starvation; and liberation from Bergen-Belsen by British troops. Mrs. E. discusses her strong belief that Jesus saved her in the camps; her present faith; marriage to another survivor; testifying at a war crime trial; and continuing persecutions of Romanies.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- E., Marta.
Corporate Bodies
- RavensbruĚck (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Faith.
- War crime trials.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
- Women.
- Romanies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Sisters.
Places
- East Prussia (Germany)
- Germany.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat