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Miriam J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-727) interviewed by Peter Ullman and John Tiebout,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-727

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Miriam J., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in approximately 1918. She recounts her mother's death when she was three; her father's remarriage; her sister's death; one brother moving to Russia; marriage; Soviet occupation; her son's birth and hospitalization; her husband's military service (he was killed); German invasion; ghettoization; a beating for attempting to smuggle potatoes; her son's murder; escaping from a round-up; a Jewish policeman hiding her; murder of her father, stepmother, and brother; transfer to Kaunas concentration camp, then to Stutthof; slave labor digging ditches; losing faith in God; a guard giving food to a fellow prisoner; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; traveling with a friend to Łódź; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; marriage; emigration to the United States; the births of two children; her husband's suicide; remarriage; and her daughter's birth. Ms. J. discusses sharing her experiences with her children and grandchildren; and nightmares resulting from her experiences.
Author/Creator: J., Miriam, 1918?-
Published: Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1985
Interview Date: November 9, 1985.
Locale: Lithuania
Kaunas
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Łódź (Poland)
Cite As: Miriam J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-727). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Tiebout, John, interviewer.
Ullman, Peter, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Husband Death.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas. Children--Death. Escapes. Faith. Forced labor. Refugee camps. Nightmares. Lithuania. Kaunas (Lithuania) Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) J., Miriam,--1918?- Stutthof (Concentration camp) Feldafing (Displaced persons 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/4294222
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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