Edwarda P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Edwarda P., a Roman Catholic who was born in Zabkowice, Poland in 1926. She describes the annexation of her town by Germany; the removal of Polish intelligentsia to Dachau; and life under German occupation. She recounts the arrest of her family, including herself, in February 1943; her internment and interrogation at Auschwitz for two months; and her transfer to Birkenau in April 1943. She tells of daily camp life there; medical experiments on prisoners; divisions of inmates; and the gas chambers. She relates the death march from Auschwitz in January 1945; her transfers to Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen; and her escape from Bergen-Belsen and liberation by United States soldiers. Mrs. P. also speaks of her postwar life in France, England, and the United States; her marriage to a Pole who was a prisoner of war in Germany; and a postwar visit to Poland and to Auschwitz.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (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
- P., Edwarda, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Gross Rosen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Death marches.
Places
- Poland.
- Ząbkowice Śląskie (Poland)
- France.
- England.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat