- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ingeborg W., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1923. She recalls increasing antisemitism; expulsion with her parents and younger sister to Zbąszyń in October 1938 because her father was a Polish citizen; assistance from Polish Jews; living with an aunt in Kalisz; forced transfer to Kraków, then Szczerców; smuggling themselves to Warta; imprisonment in Szczerców; ghettoization in Warta; a public hanging of Jewish community leaders; separation from her mother and sister at a selection (she never saw them again); transfer with her father to the Łódź ghetto; forced labor in a munitions factory; her father's privileged kitchen position; his smuggling food to her; deportation to Auschwitz two years later; help from a fellow prisoner (they remain friends to the present); separation from her father; seeing him one last time; transfer ten days later to Bergen-Belsen; her friend smuggling food from her kitchen job; a severe beating when they were caught; liberation by British troops; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; assistance from the Red Cross; moving to Hannover; marriage; her son's birth in 1948; emigration to the United States in 1949; and her second son's birth. Ms. W. notes emotional and health problems due to her experiences and not sharing her experiences with her sons until they were older.
- Author/Creator
- W., Ingeborg, 1923-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 24, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Warta
Łódź
Hannover (Germany)
Germany
Zbąszyń (Poland)
Kalisz (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Warta (Poland)
Szczerców (Poland)
- Cite As
- Ingeborg W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-335). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Stonehill, Rita, interviewer.
