Vladka and Benjamin M. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0939
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Vladka M. and her husband Benjamin M. Mrs. M. tells of her wartime life as an underground courier between the Warsaw ghetto and non-Jewish Warsaw and contrasts ghetto life with life on the Aryan side. Pointing out the incorrect way in which Poles today equate the ghetto uprising with the (non-Jewish) Polish resistance, she describes spiritual resistance in the ghetto, meetings of the ghetto underground, and the Warsaw ghetto revolt from her perspective outside the ghetto. She stresses the importance of documentation and talks about the underground archive of the Warsaw ghetto and the book she wrote two years after the war. Mrs. M. speaks of parental protectiveness characteristic of survivors; her empathy with survivors who were parents during the Holocaust; and the link between technology and the Holocaust.

Extent and Medium

2 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Benjamin M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-194) and Vladka M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-195), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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