- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Fela M., who was born in a small town in Poland in 1917, one of eight children. She recalls attending school in Łódź; marriage in 1938; German invasion; her family's deportation to Warsaw; ghettoization in Łódź in February 1940; her daughter's birth in April; her husband's death in 1941; her father-in-law's death in 1942; her daughter's deportation in September 1942; learning of her father's death in 1943; forced labor; recovering from typhus with help from two cousins; deportation to Auschwitz in September 1944; transfer two days later to a labor camp, then in January to Bergen-Belsen; infestation with lice and "mountains" of corpses; a severe beating for trying to help male prisoners; liberation by British troops in April 1945; a three-year hospitalization including a sanitarium in Milan; marriage in 1950; the births of two children; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. M. discusses continuing pain due to the loss of her entire family; her belief that "something died" in her; painful aspects of child rearing due to her first daughter's death; and her children's interest in her experiences. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- M., Fela, 1917-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992
- Interview Date
- December 14, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Milan (Italy)
- Cite As
- Fela M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2536). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.
Eger, Jane, interviewer.
