- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Fela W., who was born in Ozorków, Poland in 1926. She recalls her family's Hasidism; being mocked by non-Jews; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; one SS man providing help for her family; a public hanging of Jewish young men; ghettoization; transfer with her family to the Łódź ghetto; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family except her sister; transfer a few days later to Poppenbüttel-Sasel (Hamburg); clearing rubble from Allied bombings; transfer nine months later to a POW camp; treatment for blood poisoning by a prisoner doctor; train transport to Bergen-Belsen; losing her will to live; liberation by British troops; a two month recovery; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; marriage; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mrs. W. discusses the importance to her survival of being with her sister; a trip to Poland with her younger daughter in 1978; speaking to schools about her experience; her continuing relationship with friends from Bergen-Belsen; loss of belief in God after the war; and eventual return to Judaism knowing her parents would have wanted that. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- W., Fela, 1926-2006.
- Published
- Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1992
- Interview Date
- December 16, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Ozorków
Łódź
Ozorków (Poland)
- Cite As
- Fela W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3029). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hoffman, Sanford, interviewer.
Benchimol, Rita, interviewer.
