Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Marlene G. who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1927. She recalls her family's affluence; their orthodoxy; attending a private, Jewish school; pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; her father's arrest (she never saw him again); ghettoization; attending school until 1942; starvation; a Jewish policeman smuggling her younger brother out when he was rounded up in May; forced labor; sabotaging the work; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her brother; her mother's selection (she never saw her again); punishment after a prisoner revolt destroyed a crematorium; transport to Birnbäumel; always remaining with her friends; a death march to Gross-Rosen and Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops. Ms. G. discusses the "eternity" of the deportation train to Auschwitz; barbecues reminding her of the smell of Auschwitz; losing hope only one time; her group always helping each other; losing her belief in God in the camps, but regaining it later; sorrow at liberation; nightmares; not sharing her story for thirty years; and feeling obligated to do so now.
- Published
- Lawrence, N. Y. : Second Generation of Long Island, 1985
- Interview Date
- November 20, 1985.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland) - Cite As
- Marlene G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-672). 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 (1 hr., 51 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar effects.
Mutual aid.
Concentration camps Revolts.
Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar. - 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--Łódź. Death marches. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Nightmares. Faith. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) G., Marlene,--1927- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Birnbäumel (Concentration camp)
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/4294083
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294083
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