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Mania K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1682) interviewed by Ira Glick and Sondra Kraft,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1682

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Mania K., who was born in Poland in 1919 and brought up in Starachowice. She describes antisemitic incidents in school; German invasion; her younger brother fleeing to the Soviet zone; fleeing to a nearby village for two weeks; working in a munitions factory in Starachowice camp with her sister (her father and brother were also there); assistance from a Jewish doctor when her sister had typhus; her brother being shot with others who had typhus; a public execution; the prisoner uprising; transfer to Auschwitz in June 1944 with her sister; transfer to Bergen-Belsen where conditions were much worse; contact with prisoners who were Jehovah's Witnesses; liberation by British troops; emigration to Canada in 1948; marriage; and moving to the United States in 1956. Mrs. K. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her sister and friends and deciding not to visit Bergen-Belsen when she was in Germany because it would be too upsetting.
Author/Creator: K., Mania, 1919-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1988
Interview Date: January 31, 1988.
Locale: Poland
Starachowice (Poland)
Cite As: Mania K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1682). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Glick, Ira, interviewer.
Kraft, Sondra, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 19 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Concentration camps Revolts.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Brothers and sisters. Sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Friendship. Jehovah's Witnesses. Poland. Starachowice (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) K., Mania,--1919- Starachowice (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (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/4284083
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:26:00
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