Martha E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Martha E., who was born in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland in 1937. She recounts her family's affluence; German invasion; fleeing to the Soviet Union; living in Siberia; her aunt joining them; privileged status because her mother was a pharmacist; moving to Bukhoro; attending school; her father's two-year imprisonment; returning to Warsaw after the war; reunion with a cousin; moving to Munich; antisemitic harassment; moving to the Bremen displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States with assistance from HIAS; attending school; and marriage to a survivor.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- E., Martha, -- 1937-
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugee camps.
- Child survivors.
- Soviet occupation.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- Poland.
- Kazimierz Dolny (Poland)
- Siberia (Russia)
- Bukhoro (Uzbekistan)
- Bremen (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Munich (Germany)
- Warsaw (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat