Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Myra L., who was born in 1919 in Łódź, Poland. Mrs. L. describes anti-Jewish legislation and extreme antisemitism; German occupation; forced labor; ghettoization; her work in a hospital as a student nurse; deportations; thousands of deaths caused by starvation, including her older brother, younger brother, and mother; the conflict between wanting to help others and the instinct for survival; liquidation of the ghetto; evacuation of the hospital; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; transfer, with a friend, to Freiberg; slave labor; and liberation by United States troops. She recounts recovery and work in a displaced persons camp in Austria and a sanatorium in Italy, where she met her future husband; and her emigration to Sweden and the United States. Mrs. L. discusses her participation in the Israel and American Gatherings of Jewish Holocaust Survivors; her postwar return to religious life; and her relationship with her daughter.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1984
- Interview Date
- November 5, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Austria
Italy
Sweden
Łódź (Poland) - Cite As
- Myra L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-299). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 5 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP Restoration master; Betacam SP Restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 45 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hospitals in Jewish ghettos.
Postwar experiences.
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--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. Faith. Austria. Italy. Poland. Sweden. Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. L., Myra,--1919- American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Freiberg (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4318470
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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