Mira R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2850) [videorecording] / interviewed by Claudine Drame and Berthe Burko-Falcman, March 10, 1994.

Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1994.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 40 min.) : col.

French

This testimony is in French.

This testimony cannot be used for publication with the donor's name.

Videotape testimony of Mira R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. She recounts her family's relative affluence; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; her father and brother fleeing east; not being able to join them because she was ill; their return; ghettoization; a round-up on August 14, 1942; her mother sending her to the infirmary at the Umschlagplatz, thinking she could escape; later going to her father's workplace; finding him (her mother and brother were deported to Treblinka); her father arranging several futile attempts to hide her with non-Jews outside the ghetto; hiding during round-ups; a successful escape in April 1943 with assistance from a non-Jewish family friend; observing the ghetto burning during the uprising; hiding with her father in a barn in Wawer; occasionally leaving to obtain food and money; arrest during a foray; placement in a camp; protection by a Polish noble woman; escaping with her to Praga; liberation by Soviet troops in September 1944; joining her father in Otwock; testifying for the noble woman when she was accused of Nazi collaboration; living with her father in Lublin and Łódź; and joining relatives in Paris in 1946. Ms. R. discusses her postwar mental illnesses; becoming an adult without ever being an adolescent; conversations with God during the war and less now; and the impossibility of really conveying her experiences. She shows photographs.

June 01, 2002

Mira R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2850). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Mira R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2850). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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