- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Miriam W., who was born in approximately 1929 and lived in Lʹviv, Poland. She recalls antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; hiding during round-ups; being found; her mother urging her to run; escaping; finding her older sister, who did not look Jewish; her sister arranging their trip to Warsaw, posing as non-Jews; a friend finding her a servant's job; leaving, fearing denouncement; her friend finding her another job; frequently traveling to her employer's mother in Otwock; her employer briefly hiding a Jewish child; watching the ghetto burn; her sister bribing an official to obtain Polish papers for them both, which later confirmed she was not Jewish when her employer became suspicious; staying with her employer's mother in Otwock; contacting her sister after the war; traveling to Lodz to join her; continuing to use their Polish papers due to antisemitism; traveling to Austria; living in a displaced persons camp; assistance from UNRRA; emigrating alone to the United States in 1946 with an orphans' group; brief quarantine at Ellis Island; living with a kind foster family; attending school; and marriage in 1950. Ms. W. discusses dreams about her mother sustaining her in hiding; "deep scars" resulting from her experiences; and, after years of silence, sharing her experiences with her children, which opened a "new path" between them.
- Author/Creator
- W., Miriam, 1929?-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- November 1, 1984.
- Locale
- Austria
Poland
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Warsaw (Poland)
Otwock (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
- Cite As
- Miriam W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-368). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Stadtler, Bea, interviewer.
