- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Marlies G., who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1919. She recalls growing up in Katowice, where her father was the Brazilian consul; pro-Nazism in school; attending school in Montreux; living in England; pre-medical studies in Paris; returning to Katowice in 1939; German invasion; attending dental school in Danzig; registering as a Brazilian citizen; her father and brother's arrest; her arrest and release; living with a friend's family in Okarben; re-arrest; traveling in a prisoner train to Katowice with Jews and Romanies; friendly Wehrmacht guards; imprisonment en route; stopping in Auschwitz in January 1943 where all other prisoners were removed; imprisonment in Katowice; transfer to Vienna; vicious SS female guards; transfer to Liebenau; reunion with her mother; deportation of Polish Jews holding South American passports; transfer with her mother to Vittel, where her father and brother were imprisoned; receiving Red Cross food and medical supplies; liberation by United States troops in September 1944; transfer to La Bourboule; working as an interpreter for the United States military; emigrating to the United States in 1946 (her parents and brother went to Brazil); marriage and her subsequent life.
- Author/Creator
- G., Marlies, 1919-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
- Interview Date
- September 30, 1992.
- Locale
- Wrocław (Poland)
Germany
Katowice (Poland)
Montreux (Switzerland)
England
Paris (France)
Gdańsk (Poland)
Okarben (Germany)
Vienna (Austria)
La Bourboule (France)
- Cite As
- Marlies G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2176). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
