Emina N. and Miriam W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of sisters Emina N. and Miriam W., who were born in ?o?dz?, Poland. They describe their family of six siblings; anti-Semitic incidents in the 1930s; German invasion in 1939; forced labor; having to move to the ghetto; a variety of jobs there; and difficulties of life in the ghetto. They recall deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; Emina saving Miriam from selection; transfer to Birkenau; railroad transport to Harburg, a camp near Hamburg; removing brick rubble; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; the birth of a baby in their barrack the night before liberation; liberation by the British; Emina's obtaining medical help for Miriam who was near death from typhus; separation due to Miriam's hospitalization; finding each other after Emina thought Miriam had died; and finding their older sister in Landsberg. Each sister recalls specific incidents vivid in her own mind.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)
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
- N., Emina.
- W., Miriam.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Sisters.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Refugee camps.
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
Places
- Poland.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Łódź ghetto.
- Harburg (Hamburg, Germany : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc