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Malka O. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4478)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4478

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Malka O., who was born in Poland in 1925, the youngest of four children. She recounts her father emigrating to Argentina in 1930; her brother's enlistment in the Polish military in 1938; German invasion in 1939; her sister's emigration to Argentina; hiding with a group of people one night during a round-up; finding her mother gone when she returned; staying with her brother-in-law's friends; leaving after an attack by Poles; her brother-in-law returning months later; living with him and his uncle; round-up for slave labor in a factory in Staszów; ghettoization; separation from her brother-in-law; deportation to Ravensbrück; slave labor in a factory; evacuation on Swedish buses to Copenhagen, Denmark in April 1945; contacting her father in Argentina; and emigrating to join him in early 1946. Ms. O. notes never learning what happened to her mother and brother; her sense of being liberated, but never truly free; and having no peace despite her children and grandchildren.
Author/Creator: O., Malka, 1925-
Published: Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1995
Interview Date: August 8, 1995.
Locale: Poland
Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie)
Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Cite As: Malka O. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4478). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Notes: This testimony is in Spanish.

Physical Details

Language: Spanish
Copies: 1 copy: VHS master.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 49 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie) Forced labor. Poland. Staszów (Województwo Świętokrzyskie, Poland) Copenhagen (Denmark) Oral histories (document genres) O., Malka,--1925- Ravensbrück (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/12525088
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:26:00
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