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Miriam H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1737) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Kathy Strochlic,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1737

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Miriam H., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1912. She recalls her marriage in 1938; her daughter's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; a round-up in which her parents, daughter, and niece were taken (she never saw them again); incarceration with her husband and sister in Płaszów; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz; their transfer to Theresienstadt about a year later; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Prague; reunion with her husband in Kraków; living in Germany for four years; the birth of a child; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. H. discusses pointless slave labor in the camps; her husband's illnesses resulting from the camp experience; not sharing her story with her children, unless they ask, for fear of disturbing them; reluctance to meet with other survivors because she does not want to talk or hear about the camps; and pervasive bad memories. She shows pictures and notes her sorrow that she does not even have a photograph of her murdered daughter.
Author/Creator: H., Miriam, 1912-
Published: New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
Interview Date: November 13, 1990.
Locale: Germany
Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Cite As: Miriam H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1737). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 6 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Germany. Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Children--Death. Husband and wife. Sisters. Forced labor. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Prague (Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) H., Miriam,--1912- Płaszów (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (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/4317623
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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