Ita M. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0396
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Ita M., who was born in approximately 1928, and lived in Sosnowiec, Poland. She recounts having two brothers and two sisters; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; her father's deportation for forced labor in Germany; ghettoization; forced labor manufacturing military uniforms; receiving food from Polish friends; deportation to Graeben; slave labor in a spinning factory for twelve hour shifts; receiving food from Soviet and Polish POWs; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; observing cannibalism; encountering her sister; contracting typhus; assistance from her sister; hospitalization; liberation by British troops; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; joining an uncle in Munich; emigration to the United States in 1947 to join an uncle; and living in a foster home after his death. Ms. M. notes the importance of being with her sister to her survival in Bergen-Belsen and not discussing her experiences with her children.

Extent and Medium

3 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

  • M., Ita, -- 1928?-

Corporate Bodies

  • DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Child survivors.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Sisters.
  • Forced labor.
  • Cannibalism.
  • Prisoners of war -- Poland.
  • Jews -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Hospitals in concentration camps.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Mutual aid.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust survivors.

Places

  • Munich (Germany)
  • Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
  • Graeben (Poland : Concentration camp)
  • Sosnowiec ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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