- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lenka M., who was born in Porúbka, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, one of four children. She recalls her parents sending her to Uz︠h︡horod to avoid deportation; working as a hairdresser for nine months; joining her family in an Uz︠h︡horod brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and brother (she never saw them again); remaining with her two sisters; one sister's selection (she never saw her again); public executions; transfer with her sister to Canada Kommando; assistance from a Jewish Slovak kapo; a severe beating by Therese Brandl, a sadistic official, for taking clothes to trade for food; witnessing the herding of people into the gas chambers; a death march with her sister to Ravensbrück in January 1945; transfer to Neustadt/Glewe; slave labor in an airplane factory; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Łódź, then home; kindness from neighbors; learning their family had not survived; marriage to a survivor; and the births of three daughters. Ms. M. discusses the importance to her survival of working in Canada Kommando; most prisoners helping their relatives; relations between prisoner groups; not expecting to survive; her children not wanting her to share her experiences, thinking it too painful for her; and nightmares and stress resulting from her experiences.
- Author/Creator
- M., Lenka, 1927-
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- March 26, 1995.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Porúbka (Slovakia)
Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
Łódź (Poland)
- Cite As
- Lenka M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3671). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Salner, Peter, interviewer.
Salnerová, Eva, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
