Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Maria J., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1918. She describes her father's tannery in Dobczyce; cordial relations with non-Jews; living in Podgórze; participating in Akiba, a Zionist organization; marriage in 1937; German invasion in 1939; her husband's imprisonment as a spy (he was in the Polish military); his release after paying ransom; leaving her son with her parents in Dobczyce; working for the underground in Kraków; ghettoization; obtaining a job distributing food rations, then as a waitress for German soldiers; secretly leaving the ghetto to visit her son; providing a Jewish boy with food; helping distribute medicines received from the Joint; contacts with Tadeusz Pankiewicz, a Pole who maintained a ghetto pharmacy (she is critical of him); a round-up when a friend was killed and she was whipped; escaping from the ghetto to her family in Dobczyce; returning to Kraków; moving with her son to Płaszów; their escape; hiding with her husband and others in a bunker; and smuggling food disguised as a Pole. Mrs. J. discusses postwar antisemitism resulting in her husband's imprisonment; confiscation of their successful winery; meeting Oskar Schindler; her husband's friendship with Pope John Paul II; the murder of her entire family in the Holocaust; and the music of Mordecai Gebirtig.
- Published
- Kraków, Poland : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
- Interview Date
- May 13, 1995.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Dobczyce (Kraków, Poland)
Podgórze (Kraków, Poland) - Cite As
- Maria J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3179). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Polish.
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 57 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Zionist organizations.
False papers.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kraków. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Escapes. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Songs and music. Mothers and sons. Husband and wife. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Dobczyce (Kraków, Poland) Podgórze (Kraków, Poland) Oral histories (document genres) J., Maria,--1918- Gebirtig, Mordecai,--1877-1942. Pankiewicz, Tadeusz. Schindler, Oskar,--1908-1974. John Paul--II,--Pope,--1920-2005. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Płaszów (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4290934
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:23:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290934
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