Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Madeleine M., who was born in Paris, France in 1920. She speaks of the German occupation; joining a resistance group in Paris in 1941; hiding British pilots; her arrest in 1943; solitary confinement in a prison on the outskirts of Paris; finding a way to communicate wtih other prisoners; interrogations and beatings; witnessing prisoners condemned to death; transfer to Ravensbrück; the depressing view of the camp and prisoners; interacting with women of different cultures and nationalities; starvation and beatings; receiving packages from the Vatican; inconsistent treatment by the guards; secretly reading a Bible on Sundays with a group of women; stacking dead bodies in the bathroom; the killing of a young French girl by dogs; selections of grey-haired people for killing; women who were used in "medical" experiments; work in a munitions factory; cleaning streets; transfer in cattle cars to Mauthausen; being locked in a barn, waiting for gassing; and liberation by the Red Cross. Ms. M. relates entering Switzerland; people welcoming and helping the survivors; and reunion with her mother in Paris.
- Published
- Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
- Interview Date
- April 13, 1994.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France)
Switzerland - Cite As
- Madeleine M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2354). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Additional published material is available in the repository.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 51 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Resistance.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, French. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects--Catholic Church. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Human experimentation in medicine. France. Paris (France) Switzerland. Oral histories (document genres) Concentration camp inmates. M., Madeleine,--1920- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1091669
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:32:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1091669
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