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Lea I. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2330) interviewed by Ramona R. W. Kirsch and Charles E. Hoffhaus,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2330

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Lea I., who was born in Mszczonów, Poland. She recalls compulsory relocation of all Jews to Warsaw; deportation to Majdanek; the hanging of an eight-year-old girl; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau, then to a forced labor camp near Prague; constant hunger; a soldier who threw her bread; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Mszczonów; learning none of her family had survived; moving to Łódź; marriage; her son's birth; and emigration to Israel, then to the United States two years later. Mrs. I. notes her strong belief in God and observance of the Jewish dietary laws.
Author/Creator: I., Lea.
Published: Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
Interview Date: February 17, 1994.
Locale: Poland
Mszczonów (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Cite As: Lea I. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2330). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kirsch, Ramona R. W., interviewer.
Hoffhaus, Charles E., interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (38 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Poland. Mszczonów (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) I., Lea. Majdanek (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1096673
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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