Ana M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ana M., who was born in 1928 in PrzemysĚl, Poland. She recounts the family move to Antwerp when she was six months old; a happy childhood; moving to Brussels; German invasion; fleeing to Pas-de-Calais, France; returning to Brussels; her brother's conscription for forced labor (she never saw him again); her parents obtaining false papers; her mother dying her hair blond; shopping at the black market; being shot when fleeing from a German checking papers; her father's arrest; visiting him in Malines (she never saw him again); liberation by Allied troops; emigration with her mother in 1948, via Rio de Janeiro and Paraguay, to join an uncle in Buenos Aires; marriage in 1950; the births of two sons; and divorce. Ms. M. discusses economic difficulties; receiving German reparation payments; and loneliness. She shows photographs.
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
- M., Ana, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Malines (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Child survivors.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Hiding.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
Places
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- PrzemysĚl (Poland)
- Poland.
- Paraguay.
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
- Pas-de-Calais (France)
- Brussels (Belgium)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat