Miriam E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1929, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's poverty; their move to Lublin; attending three years of public school; visiting her aunt in Bełżyce; German invasion; observing Germans killing family friends; returning home four months later; her family escaping in Piaski during their forced relocation; living with a family friend; returning to Lublin days later; her parents returning her to her aunt in Bełżyce, thinking it safer (she never saw them again); in 1942, her uncle sending her and two cousins to another uncle in Lublin, who had a workshop vital to the Germans in Lublin; living with him in the Majdan Tartarski ghetto; hiding during round-ups; returning to Bełżyce, which had been ghettoized; hiding during round-ups; a woman living with them giving birth; hiding with non-Jews in 1942; denouncement; the woman who hid them bribing the Polish police to release them; deportation to Budzyn; a kapo allowing her younger male cousin to stay with them in the female barrack; slave labor in the kitchen providing access to extra food; sharing it with her family; and observing Kommandant Reinhold Feiks execute one of her cousins.
Extent and Medium
15 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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Feiks, Reinhold.
- E., Miriam, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Budzyn (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- Malchow (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
- Lampertheim (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Lublin.
- Jews -- Poland -- Majdan Tatarski.
- Jews -- Poland -- Bełżyce.
- Escapes.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Refugee camps.
- Death marches.
- Child survivors.
- Orphanages -- Poland.
- Mutual aid.
- Childbirth in Jewish ghettos.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Poland.
- Piaski (Lublin, Poland)
- Pieszyce (Poland)
- Bełżyce (Poland)
- Lublin (Poland)
- Lublin ghetto.
- Majdan Tatarski ghetto.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Neubrandenburg (Germany)
- Bełżyce ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat