- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Paula K., who was born in Kłodawa, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion in 1939; German soldiers severely beating, then killing the rabbi and others; expulsion from their home; non-Jews providing food for her family; twenty months in a forced labor camp; being beaten by a guard; crocheting for civilian workers to earn extra food; a Polish woman who often assisted her; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; hiding injuries to avoid selection; an SS woman who gave her extra food; transfer to Czechoslovakia in late 1944; sabotaging their work in an airplane factory; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. K. describes returning to Kłodawa; a warm reception from her neighbors; marriage; fleeing to Berlin to escape antisemitic attacks; her daughters' births; and emigration to the United States in 1951. She discusses her reluctance to speak of her experience until a gathering of Holocaust survivors in Israel in 1981, and her subsequent efforts to educate children about the Holocaust as a memorial to her parents.
- Author/Creator
- K., Paula, 1924-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1992
- Interview Date
- August 6, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Kłodawa (Województwo wielkopolskie, Poland)
- Cite As
- Paula K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2455). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Grossman, Alys Kremer, interviewer.
Harrison, Beatrice, interviewer.
