Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Malka N., who was born in Sandomierz, Poland in 1930, the second youngest of seven children. She recounts attending public school, followed by Jewish school in the afternoon; one brother emigrating to Paris; another brother's draft into the Polish army; German invasion; her father's arrest and beating; hiding in their basement during a round-up in October 1942; discovery; she and her mother avoiding detection; a Polish soldier finding and taking them to a labor camp; her mother's release to the ghetto; visiting her; being taken for execution; escaping under fire; returning to the camp; deportation to Starachowice in January 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau a year later; hospitalization; reunion with a sister; slave labor in a munitions factory; public hanging of four women following an uprising; transfer in open cattle cars to Ravensbrück, then two weeks later to Malchow; a death march; abandonment by the guards; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Łódź, then visiting Sandomierz; leaving her sister in Łódź when she went to Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; emigration to Palestine; marriage; and the births of two children. Ms. N. notes having her tattoo removed in Israel and that she and her sister are her immediate family's sole survivors.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1998
- Interview Date
- January 15, 1998.
- Locale
- Poland
Sandomierz
Sandomierz (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Hamburg (Germany) - Cite As
- Malka N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3912). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 45 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Concentration camps Revolts. - 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. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Escapes. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Sandomierz. Sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Refugee camps. Poland. Sandomierz (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Hamburg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) N., Malka,--1930- Sandomierz (Concentration camp) Starachowice (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Malchow (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
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/4469530
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:27:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4469530
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