- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Meta N., who was born in Oberdorf, a small town near Stuttgart, Germany in 1915, and who became deaf at the age of two. Mrs. N. discusses the emigration of her brothers to the United States before 1941; daily life in Oberdorf between 1937 and 1941; and her deportation by cattle car to Rīga/Jungfernhof, Latvia, in November, 1941. She tells how she succeeded in hiding her deafness from guards and officials, once escaping a selection of deaf and other handicapped people, and how, knowing she was deaf, other prisoners helped her. She recalls the move from Jungfernhof to Kaiserwald in 1943, then to Stutthof/Danzig in 1944; being sent as a slave laborer to Korbin, Poland, where, near the battlefront, they slept in tents in the middle of winter; liberation by the Russians; and being sent to Bromberg, Poland, where she remained until the end of the war. Mrs. N. also speaks of her emigration to the United States in 1946; the tearful reunion with her siblings; her marriage in 1949; her children and grandchildren; and her desire to forget about the past.
- Author/Creator
- N., Meta, 1915-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1986
- Interview Date
- April 14, 1986.
- Locale
- Germany
Oberdorf (Germany)
Bydgoszcz (Poland)
- Cite As
- Meta N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-696). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Broeker, Candy, interpreter.
Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.
Steifel, Brenda, interviewer.
- Notes
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The interview was conducted in American sign language and interpreted into English.
Additional written materials are available in the repository.
