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Miriam E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-550)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-550

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who lived in Vilna, Poland among a large extended family. She recalls seders in her grandmother's village; her half-sister's and father's emigrations to Palestine; belonging to Betar; Lithuanian, then Soviet rule; German invasion; ghettoization; escaping; traveling to her grandmother's village; learning her grandmother had been killed; hiding with her grandmother's friend; traveling by night to another town; meeting her future husband; contact with partisans; hiding with her husband in a bunker in the Naroch forest; receiving food from local farmers; joining a Jewish partisan unit; blowing up bridges and trains; assistance from Soviets; some antisemitic partisan units harassing them; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Vilnius, Šiauliai, Łódź, Gdánsk, Bucharest, Budapest, and Graz; living in Florence for about a year, then in Rome; and emigration to the United States in 1948.
Author/Creator: E., Miriam, 1925?-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1983
Interview Date: September 18, 1983.
Locale: Lithuania
Vilnius
Naroch, Lake (Belarus)
Šiauliai (Lithuania)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Łódź (Poland)
Gdańsk (Poland)
Bucharest (Romania)
Budapest (Hungary)
Graz (Austria)
Florence (Italy)
Rome (Italy)
Cite As: Miriam E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-550). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Notes: Audio quality is very poor and, at times, inaudible.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. with VHS time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 16 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar experiences.
Forests.
Mutual aid.
Partisans.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Soviet occupation.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Lithuania. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Husband and wife. Naroch, Lake (Belarus) Šiauliai (Lithuania) Vilnius (Lithuania) Łódź (Poland) Gdańsk (Poland) Bucharest (Romania) Budapest (Hungary) Graz (Austria) Florence (Italy) Rome (Italy) Oral histories (document genres) E., Miriam,--1925?- Betar.

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/4282243
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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