Vladka and Benjamin M. Holocaust testimony
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
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This testimony is open with permission.
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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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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- M., Benjamin, -- 1918-2006.
- M., Vladka.
Subjects
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Passive resistance.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Husband and wife.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Jewish ghettos.
Places
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc