- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Mania W., who was born in Łódź, Poland, one of six children. She recalls her large, extended family; their textile businesses and affluence; holiday and Sabbath gatherings; German invasion; fleeing with her father, brother, and one sister to Warsaw; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; starvation; hiding during round-ups; a neighbor saving her baby sister during a selection; her father's death; her work manager supplying extra food when she was sick; deportation with her family to Auschwitz in August 1944; remaining with one sister (the others did not survive); transfer three days later to Mühlhausen; slave labor in a munitions factory; not revealing they were sisters; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; liberation; hospitalization; transfer with her sister to Sweden with assistance from the Red Cross; hospitalization for tuberculosis until 1950; marriage to a survivor in 1951; her son's birth; emigration to the United States; and her daughter's birth in 1957. Ms. W. discusses previously not sharing her story, even with her husband and children, wanting to leave her memories behind.
- Author/Creator
- W., Mania, 1924-
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986
- Interview Date
- January 18, 1986.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
- Cite As
- Mania W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-710). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Tiebout, John, interviewer.
Cronson, Esther, interviewer.
