Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ita M., who was born in approximately 1928, and lived in Sosnowiec, Poland. She recounts having two brothers and two sisters; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; her father's deportation for forced labor in Germany; ghettoization; forced labor manufacturing military uniforms; receiving food from Polish friends; deportation to Graeben; slave labor in a spinning factory for twelve hour shifts; receiving food from Soviet and Polish POWs; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; observing cannibalism; encountering her sister; contracting typhus; assistance from her sister; hospitalization; liberation by British troops; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; joining an uncle in Munich; emigration to the United States in 1947 to join an uncle; and living in a foster home after his death. Ms. M. notes the importance of being with her sister to her survival in Bergen-Belsen and not discussing her experiences with her children.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- August 3, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Munich (Germany) - Cite As
- Ita M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-396). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 35 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Survivor-child relations.
Postwar experiences.
Hospitals in concentration camps. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) Prisoners of war--Poland. Cannibalism. Forced labor. Sisters. Refugee camps. Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) M., Ita,--1928?- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4293754
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4293754
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