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Mala S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1177) interviewed by Freda Remmers and Robert Roth,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1177

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Mala S., who was born in Kraków, Poland. She recalls her family's affluence; pervasive antisemitism; summer vacations in the country; returning to Kraków in 1939 on the last train prior to German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; confiscation of her father's business; ghettoization; forced labor clearing snow from streets, then in a brick factory; her parents' and sister's deportation in June 1942 (she never saw them again); remaining with her brother; shooting of the old age home residents, including her grandmother; transfer to Płaszów; public hangings and beating of every tenth prisoner (she was severely beaten) after an escape attempt; transfer to Skarżysko; working in spite of being sick; transfer to Leipzig; Allied bombings; singing prayers at night prior to the Jewish New Year; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Kraków, then the American zone; and learning her brother had been killed. Ms. S. discusses relations in camp between ethnic groups and finding three cousins had survived, her only remaining family.
Author/Creator: S., Mala, 1926-
Published: Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
Interview Date: November 11, 1987.
Locale: Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Cite As: Mala S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1177). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Remmers, Freda, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (52 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar experiences.
Mass killings.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Child survivors.
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--Kraków. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Death marches. Kraków (Poland) Poland. Oral histories (document genres) S., Mala,--1926- Płaszów (Concentration camp) Skarżysko-Kamienna (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/4294824
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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