Ana M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4146) interviewed by Abraham Huberman,
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.
- 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 - Language
-
Spanish
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Ana M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4146). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
-
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4847643
Record last modified: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4847643