Franka N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Franka N., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, one of seven children. She recalls her large extended family; antisemitic harassment; one brother's emigration to Paris; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; her father's death from starvation; deportation of siblings and her mother; public hangings of escapees; the agony of mothers when their children were taken from them; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944 with a sister, cousin, and her cousin's baby; deportation with her sister two weeks later; slave labor in an airplane factory; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; separation from her sister upon transfer to Burgau, Tuerkheim, then Buchloe; liberation by United States troops; a three month hospitalization; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; moving to Memmingen; marriage; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. N. discusses difficulty in believing what she survived; being the sole survivor of a large extended and immediate family except for her nephews in Paris and one cousin; and a recent trip to Poland with her daughter.
Extent and Medium
2 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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- N., Franka, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Burgau (Concentration camp)
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Türkheim (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Sisters.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Łódź.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- Poland.
- Łódź (Poland)
- Buchloe (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Memmingen (Germany)
- Łódź ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat