- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Bluma B., who was born in Warsaw (Praga), Poland in 1922. She recalls graduation from gymnasium in June 1939; German invasion; ghettoization; a Judenrat member helping her family locate living quarters; round-ups by Jewish police; streets strewn with corpses; her mother's and sister's deportation (she never saw them again); forced factory labor; living with her father at Mila 5; youth activities; surviving the big selection at the end of 1942; hiding with her father in a bunker during the winter; the Jewish uprising in 1943; being burned out; deportation to Majdanek; separation from her father upon arrival (she never saw him again); meaningless slave labor; public hangings; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; assignment to Werke C; transfer to a HASAG factory at Leipzig; a death march in April 1945; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. B. describes returning to Warsaw; traveling to Płock with a friend; marriage to another survivor in Łódź; traveling to Hamburg; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. She discusses her unhappiness and indecision immediately after the war; being an overprotective parent as a result of her experiences; seeing the best and worst of people during the war; and ever-present memories of that time.
- Author/Creator
- B., Bluma, 1922-
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1990
- Interview Date
- March 25, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Praga (Warsaw, Poland)
Płock (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Hamburg (Germany)
Leipzig (Germany)
- Cite As
- Bluma B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2327). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Roth, Chaya, interviewer.
Roth, Elsa, interviewer.
