Mania L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Mania L., who was born in Ukraine in 1910. She recalls leaving for Palestine with her family in 1919, staying in Kiev and Sevastopol?, and arrival in 1920; attending Arabic school in Tel Aviv; moving to Paris in 1933 to attend university; her parents' anger at her marriage to a non-Jew; her daughter's birth; her husband's mobilization, capture, and release; arrest in 1943; imprisonment in Fresnes; internment in Paris and Drancy; working as a tailor; sharing food packages with prisoners; observing the deportation of children; liberation by United States troops; reunion with her husband; and traveling to Aussois to retrieve their daughter, who had been hidden by a non-Jewish friend. Mrs. L. discusses her pessimism about humanity after the Holocaust; the importance of Holocaust education; her daughter's atheism; and her granddaughter's pride in her Jewish background.
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
- L., Mania, -- 1910-
Corporate Bodies
- Drancy (Concentration camp)
- Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes.
Subjects
- Interfaith marriage.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar effects.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Kiev (Ukraine)
- Paris (France)
- Sevastopolʹ (Ukraine)
- Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Aussois (France)
- Ukraine.
- Palestine.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat