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Miriam B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1690) interviewed by Ronnie Morgan,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1690

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    Overview

    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Miriam B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1935. She recalls German invasion; her father's flight to Lida in the Soviet zone; joining him with her mother; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; removal, with her parents, from a group being herded to a mass killing; being hidden with a non-Jewish woman; her parents retrieving her; returning to the ghetto; their escape into nearby forests with partisans in fall 1942; partisan military actions; German attacks; hunger, cold, and frequently changing locations; fear of losing her mother; establishment of a partisan hospital in the forest where her father was a surgeon; executions of German prisoners; and liberation by Soviet troops in 1944. Dr. B. recounts their moving to Szczuczyn, then Lublin; learning about the concentration camps, realizing their family had perished; leaving Poland due to antisemitism; living in Turda, Budapest, and displaced persons camps in Austria, Venice, and Rome; and emigrating to the United States in February 1947. She notes her survival was due to her father being a surgeon, and discusses her desire for vengeance; sharing her experiences with her children; writing biographical poetry; and Yiddish songs from that period.
    Author/Creator
    B., Miriam, 1935-
    Published
    Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1991
    Interview Date
    May 26, 1991.
    Locale
    Belarus
    Lida
    Poland
    Rome (Italy)
    Venice (Italy)
    Austria
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Lida (Belarus)
    Szczuczyn (Poland)
    Turda (Romania)
    Lublin (Poland)
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Cite As
    Miriam B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1690). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Morgan, Ronnie, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 27 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Mass killings.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Partisans.
    Forests.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.
    Antisemitism Postwar.
    Survivor-child relations.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4284099
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:33:00
    This page:
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