- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Miriam K., who was born in Troškūnai, Lithuania in 1924. She recalls antisemitic hostility increasing in the 1930s; attending school in Panevėžys; returning home for holidays; Soviet occupation; being sent to school in Kaunas; receiving a letter from home instructing her not to return after German invasion; murders and violence in Kaunas; staying with a cousin; being saved from a mass killing by a non-Jewish janitor; ghettoization; learning from escapees of mass killings in the Seventh and Ninth Forts; her future brother-in-law's escape; volunteering to go to Kauen-Schanzen hoping to survive because of her labor; escaping while marching in town; a Lithuanian hiding her (he saved eleven other Jews, two Soviet POWS, and a Lithuanian who had been sentenced to death); liberation by Soviet troops; returning home with a cousin; and learning her family had been murdered in a mass killing. Ms. K. notes her rescuer's wife was recognized by Yad Vashem (he died in 1952) and the importance of speaking about the Holocaust.
- Author/Creator
- K., Miriam, 1924-
- Published
- Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1988
- Interview Date
- July 13, 1988.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Kaunas
Troškūnai (Lithuania)
Panevėžys (Lithuania)
Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Cite As
- Miriam K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1169). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hoffman, Sanford, interviewer.
Jubelirer, Shelly, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Morris K. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-3024), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
