Anna N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Anna N., who was born in Krako?w, Poland. She recalls her father's wholesale dairy business; German invasion; ghettoization; remaining in Krako?w when her parents moved to another city; obtaining false papers to visit them; working in the Madritsch factory; the brutal mass transfer to P?aszo?w; Madritsch choosing her to work, which afforded better food and conditions; escaping with help from a Polish co-worker; joining her boyfriend in Rzeszo?w; working for the railroad using false papers; fear of denunciation; her friend's arrest; returning to Krako?w; and receiving assistance from several Poles. Mrs. N. recounts obtaining new papers; volunteering for forced labor in Austria thinking exposure was less likely there; working as a domestic in Vienna; encountering a friend (who would later become her husband); nearly being raped by the Soviet liberators; assistance from the Red Cross; traveling to Krako?w seeking surviving family; returning to Vienna when she found none; marriage at the Polish consulate; and emigration to the United States. She discusses her long-lasting depression; reluctance to identify herself as Jewish; becoming less depressed after her son's birth; and the impact of her experience on her children.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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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.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Madritsch, Julius.
- N., Anna.
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Escapes.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland).
- Rzesźow (Poland)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Kraków ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat