- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Molly I., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1920. She recalls marriage at age seventeen; her daughter's birth a year later; German occupation in 1941; her husband's murder; ghettoization; frequent round-ups; escaping a mass killing with help from her father-in-law; volunteering for deportation to Estonia to save her daughter when the children were to be liquidated; escaping from the train; sneaking into a camp since she could not obtain food; continued efforts to save her daughter in Vaivara and Ereda with help from her father-in-law; witnessing atrocities by Helmut Schnabel (she testified against him in a war crimes trial); deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with her daughter with help from another prisoner; eventual separation from her daughter; and learning the child had been killed. Mrs. I. recounts her overwhelming grief; being comforted by Dutch prisoners; numerous hardships; the death march; transport to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; marriage in 1947; emigration to the United States in 1949; and her daughter's birth.
- Author/Creator
- I., Molly, 1920-
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1991
- Interview Date
- January 13, 1991.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Vilnius
Poland
Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Cite As
- Molly I. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1633). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Lampner, Elanore L, interviewer.
Willen, Froma T., interviewer.
- Notes
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Additional published material is available in the repository.
