Madeleine M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2354) [videorecording] / interviewed by Ramona R. W. Kirsch and Mary Ann McCue, April 13, 1994.

Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 51 min.) : col.

English

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Videotape testimony of Madeleine M., who was born in Paris, France in 1920. She speaks of the German occupation; joining a resistance group in Paris in 1941; hiding British pilots; her arrest in 1943; solitary confinement in a prison on the outskirts of Paris; finding a way to communicate wtih other prisoners; interrogations and beatings; witnessing prisoners condemned to death; transfer to Ravensbrück; the depressing view of the camp and prisoners; interacting with women of different cultures and nationalities; starvation and beatings; receiving packages from the Vatican; inconsistent treatment by the guards; secretly reading a Bible on Sundays with a group of women; stacking dead bodies in the bathroom; the killing of a young French girl by dogs; selections of grey-haired people for killing; women who were used in "medical" experiments; work in a munitions factory; cleaning streets; transfer in cattle cars to Mauthausen; being locked in a barn, waiting for gassing; and liberation by the Red Cross. Ms. M. relates entering Switzerland; people welcoming and helping the survivors; and reunion with her mother in Paris.

June 01, 2002

Madeleine M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2354). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Madeleine M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2354). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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