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Ana M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4146) interviewed by Abraham Huberman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4146

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Ana M., who was born in 1928 in Przemyśl, Poland. She recounts the family move to Antwerp when she was six months old; a happy childhood; moving to Brussels; German invasion; fleeing to Pas-de-Calais, France; returning to Brussels; her brother's conscription for forced labor (she never saw him again); her parents obtaining false papers; her mother dying her hair blond; shopping at the black market; being shot when fleeing from a German checking papers; her father's arrest; visiting him in Malines (she never saw him again); liberation by Allied troops; emigration with her mother in 1948, via Rio de Janeiro and Paraguay, to join an uncle in Buenos Aires; marriage in 1950; the births of two sons; and divorce. Ms. M. discusses economic difficulties; receiving German reparation payments; and loneliness. She shows photographs.
Author/Creator: M., Ana, 1928-
Published: Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 2001
Interview Date: August 6, 2001.
Locale: Poland
Przemyśl (Poland)
Antwerp (Belgium)
Brussels (Belgium)
Pas-de-Calais (France)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Paraguay
Cite As: Ana M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4146). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Huberman, Abraham, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Spanish.

Physical Details

Language: Spanish
Copies: 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (56 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
False papers.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Hiding.
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. Mothers and daughters. Fathers and daughters. Poland. Przemyśl (Poland) Antwerp (Belgium) Brussels (Belgium) Pas-de-Calais (France) Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Paraguay. Oral histories (document genres) M., Ana,--1928- Malines (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/4847643
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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