Maria G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2506) [videorecording] / interviewed by Rivie Zeiler, May 7, 1993.

Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1993.

1 videorecording (56 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Graham, Maria. Interview 26076. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Maria G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922, one of five children. She recalls living in a Jewish area; her parents realizing Kristallnacht was the end of German Jewry; German invasion; one sister fleeing east; anti-Jewish laws; ghettoization; starvation; smuggling food; escaping; assistance from her father's former business colleague; posing as a non-Jew; obtaining papers as a non-Jew when she traded her pocketbook (the owner did not realize her papers were in the traded pocketbook); volunteering for forced labor in Germany as a Pole; working in a garden-nursery near Berlin; frequent Allied bombings; liberation by Soviet troops; learning her sister had survived in the Soviet Union; receiving papers from an aunt in the United States; waiting until her sister, brother-in-law, and their baby could join her; their emigration; and marriage in 1948 to a man who had left Poland when he was four. Ms. G. discusses continuing to dislike the German language and the war being beyond comprehension.

June 01, 2002

Maria G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2506). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Maria G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2506). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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