LEADER 04268cpd a2200577 a 4500001 4295674 005 20180604133158.0 008 980731s1990 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702234954 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV00-A243 035 4295674 035 HVT-1573 035 |9FLW9943YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702157942 090 |bHVT-1573 100 1 L., Miriam, |d1917- 245 10 Miriam L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1573) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Toby Blum-Dobkin, |fApril 19, 1990. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bA Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, |c1990. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 30 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Miriam L., a twin, who was born in Poland in 1917. She recounts her family moving to Łódź; being given to a nurse for three years when her mother was ill; her twin's death; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1922; graduating from gymnasium; ghettoization; forced labor; the deaths of her siblings and parents; a German grabbing her nephew from her arms and crushing his head against a wall; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then to Christianstadt; slave labor digging ditches; a German guard providing her with extra food; a severe beating for helping other prisoners; a death march; remaining behind in a barn with her friend who had been shot; obtaining food from Germans; liberation by Soviet troops; a Jewish officer protecting them and bringing them to Łódź; meeting her future husband; moving to Germany due to pogroms in Poland; marriage; several miscarriages; her son's birth; her husband's successful business; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mrs. L. discusses disbelief that she survived such suffering; her inability to describe her experiences; a negative experience with American relatives; her brother's death in the British brigade; and family relations prior to the war. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Miriam L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1573). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 L., Miriam, |d1917- 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zŁódź. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Łódź (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093570 651 0 Germany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125931 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Mutual aid. 691 4 Łódź ghetto. 691 4 Christianstadt (Poland : Concentration camp) 700 1 Blum-Dobkin, Toby, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78048983 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4675105 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1573) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/3b5w66953n 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/