Ita M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-396) [videorecording] / interviewed by Rita Stonehill, August 3, 1984.

Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 35 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Ita M., who was born in approximately 1928, and lived in Sosnowiec, Poland. She recounts having two brothers and two sisters; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; eviction from their apartment; her father's deportation for forced labor in Germany; ghettoization; forced labor manufacturing military uniforms; receiving food from Polish friends; deportation to Graeben; slave labor in a spinning factory for twelve hour shifts; receiving food from Soviet and Polish POWs; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; observing cannibalism; encountering her sister; contracting typhus; assistance from her sister; hospitalization; liberation by British troops; living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; joining an uncle in Munich; emigration to the United States in 1947 to join an uncle; and living in a foster home after his death. Ms. M. notes the importance of being with her sister to her survival in Bergen-Belsen and not discussing her experiences with her children.

June 01, 2002

Ita M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-396). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Ita M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-396). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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