Malka G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Malka G., who was born in Poland in 1929 and lived in B?edzin. She recalls fleeing the German invasion; returning to Be?dzin after a few days; burning of the synagogue; Jews from surrounding communities being assembled in Be?dzin for deportation; the Jewish Committee assigning her to forced labor; and transfer to Sosnowiec in 1942, then to a woolen goods factory in Gru?nberg. Mrs. G. recounts beatings, killings, selections and receiving food from non-Jews; a death march in January 1945 to Christianstadt, then Helmbrechts; Germans shooting those who attempted escape or those who could no longer walk; and liberation from the death march. She remembers recuperating in Czechoslovakia; traveling to Italy with the Jewish Brigade; and emigrating to Israel in 1948, then later to the United States. Mrs. G. describes an uncle who saved her brother and the deaths of her father and others.
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
- G., Malka, -- 1929-
Corporate Bodies
- Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
Places
- Helmbrechts (Germany : Concentration camp)
- GruĚnberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Christianstadt (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Poland.
- Będzin (Poland)
- Italy.
- Israel.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat