- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Marie B., who was born in Kuchava, Czechoslovakia in 1926, one of seven children. She recounts her father's death when she was three; attending school in Kuzʹmino and Mukachevo; Hungarian occupation in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced relocation with her family to the Munkács ghetto during Passover 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her mother upon arrival; transfer with her sisters and aunt to Birkenau; sorting deportees' possessions in Canada Kommando, which provided them with extra food and a close view of the gas chambers and crematoria; sharing food with her sisters and aunt; the Sonderkommando revolt; a death march to Gleiwitz, followed by their transport to Ravensbrück; slave labor at an airplane factory in Neustadt-Glewe; assistance from a German foreman and French POWs; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. B. describes their journey home via Prague; marriage in 1948; escaping to Israel in 1966; and emigration from Germany to the United States in 1969. She discusses the importance to her survival of being with her relatives; relations among prisoners in the camps; her reluctance to share her experiences with her children; and loss of belief in God after the war.
- Author/Creator
- B., Marie, 1926-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
- Interview Date
- April 4, 1994.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Mukacheve
Czechoslovakia
Kuchava (Ukraine)
Mukacheve (Ukraine)
Kuzʹmyno (Zakarpatsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Israel
- Cite As
- Marie B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2880). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related material: Irene G. Holocaust testimony [sister](HVT-2682), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.