- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Irma F., who was born in Lobens, Germany (presently Łobżenica, Poland), the youngest of six children. She recounts expulsion from school as a Jew; her parents sending her to live in Łódź in 1939; her mother joining her with her youngest brother and a sister in August; her mother leaving to retrieve possessions from their home; German invasion; learning from her mother's correspondence that her father had been taken to a concentration camp; traveling to Bydgoszcz, posing as a German, to visit her brother; learning he had been killed; traveling to Łobżenica; finding her home abandoned; a non-Jewish neighbor warning her to leave and giving her valuables her parents had left with him; returning to Łódź; using the valuables to pay to have her brother smuggled to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; meeting her future husband; working at a post office; deportation with her sister, her future husband, and his family to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer to Hambühren; slave labor in a salt mine; a brutal beating; recovering with assistance from her future husband's mother and a German guard; death march to Bergen-Belsen; sharing food with her sister; her future husband's mother helping her and her sister when they had typhus; liberation by British troops; the death of her future husband's mother; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage; moving to Hamburg; her daughter's birth; emigration to the United States; her second daughter's birth; and the deaths of her husband and older daughter. Ms. F. notes most of her large extended family was killed in the Holocaust. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- F., Irma.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1987
- Interview Date
- November 14, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Germany
Łobżenica (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Bydgoszcz (Poland)
Hamburg (Germany)
- Cite As
- Irma F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1135). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Mendel, Sarah, interviewer.
Barger, Steve, interviewer.
