- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. She recalls German invasion in 1939; round-ups of Jews; forced relocation to another home; hiding in a storage room with her family during round-ups; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker during a major round-up; hearing shooting in the streets; leaving the bunker to join her father when he was caught; detention in the ghetto; separation from her father; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; meeting two aunts and a cousin; forced labor in a munitions factory; giving extra food from her aunt to a friend; the death march to Ravensbrück, then Malchow, beginning in January 1945; continuing death marches; being beaten for trying to find food; escaping with her friends; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Katowice with Soviet soldiers, then to Austria with help from Haganah; meeting her future husband; moving to Naples, then Bacoli; joining a Mizrachi group; emigrating to Palestine in 1946; marriage in 1947; and emigrating to the United State twelve years later. Mrs. W. emphasizes her important friendships in the camps.
- Author/Creator
- W., Adele, 1922-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 16, 1993.
- Locale
- Poland
Będzin
Będzin (Poland)
Katowice (Poland)
Bacoli (Italy)
Naples (Italy)
Palestine
- Cite As
- Adele W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2558). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
Limperis, Constantine, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related material: Adele W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1193), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.