- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Edwarda P., a Roman Catholic who was born in Zabkowice, Poland in 1926. She describes the annexation of her town by Germany; the removal of Polish intelligentsia to Dachau; and life under German occupation. She recounts the arrest of her family, including herself, in February 1943; her internment and interrogation at Auschwitz for two months; and her transfer to Birkenau in April 1943. She tells of daily camp life there; medical experiments on prisoners; divisions of inmates; and the gas chambers. She relates the death march from Auschwitz in January 1945; her transfers to Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen; and her escape from Bergen-Belsen and liberation by United States soldiers. Mrs. P. also speaks of her postwar life in France, England, and the United States; her marriage to a Pole who was a prisoner of war in Germany; and a postwar visit to Poland and to Auschwitz.
- Author/Creator
- P., Edwarda, 1926-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987
- Interview Date
- September 29, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Za̜bkowice Śla̜skie (Poland)
France
England
- Cite As
- Edwarda P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-935). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.
