- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Vladka M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She speaks of her prewar family life; the beatings of her father and brother by the German police; and the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. She recalls her involvement in a socialist youth organization which was forming illegal groups; her job as an underground courier between Warsaw and Tomaszów Mazowiecki, a nearby ghetto; the establishment of an illegal Jewish cultural group in the Warsaw ghetto; and the maintenance of illegal schools and public kitchens there. She discusses the Judenrat; the Jewish police; the deaths from disease in the ghetto; the deportations to Treblinka; and the consequent "wild ghetto" section, presumed to be uninhabited. She recalls the selection of her mother, sister, and brother for deportation; her involvement in the resistance movement as the ghetto's representative on the Polish side; and the circumstances under which she met her present husband.
- Author/Creator
- M., Vladka, 1921-2012.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1983
- Interview Date
- February 19, 1983.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw (Poland)
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
Warsaw
- Cite As
- Vladka M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-195), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: On both sides of the wall : memoirs from the Warsaw ghetto / Vladka Meed [i.e. F. P. Miedzyrzecki] ; introd. by Elie Wiesel ; translated by Steven Meed ; [cover design by Morris Wyszogrod]. -- New York : Holocaust Library : [distributed by Schocken Books], c1979.
Associated Material: Benjamin M. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT 194) and Vladka and Benjamin M. Holocaust testimony [with husband] (HVT 939), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
