Vladka M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Vladka M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She speaks of her prewar family life; the beatings of her father and brother by the German police; and the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. She recalls her involvement in a socialist youth organization which was forming illegal groups; her job as an underground courier between Warsaw and Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, a nearby ghetto; the establishment of an illegal Jewish cultural group in the Warsaw ghetto; and the maintenance of illegal schools and public kitchens there. She discusses the Judenrat; the Jewish police; the deaths from disease in the ghetto; the deportations to Treblinka; and the consequent "wild ghetto" section, presumed to be uninhabited. She recalls the selection of her mother, sister, and brother for deportation; her involvement in the resistance movement as the ghetto's representative on the Polish side; and the circumstances under which she met her present husband.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)