Goldberg, Fela

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Fela who was born in Mława, Poland in 1920, the fourth of nine children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father teaching at a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment in the neighborhood; attending a Jewish school; training as a seamstress; joining a sister and brother in Warsaw in 1937; German invasion in 1939; destruction of their residence by German bombing; living with an aunt; her family joining them; ghettoization; hospitalization for typhus; her older brother smuggling her mother and two sisters to be hidden in Mława; working in a factory; hiding her younger brother at her work place; his round-up when she left him home; round-up with her father and two sisters; release due to her factory job; hiding in bunkers during the ghetto uprising; deportation to Majdanek; slave labor moving stones; public hangings; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor moving stones; hospitalization after three months; a friend from Mława obtaining a privileged position for her in the hospital; and improved conditions.

(Copyright: Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies - Yale)

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Code interview : YA/FA/180
Date interview : 11/09/2000 - 12/09/2000 - 12/09/2000
Lieu interview : Au domicile du témoin (1180 Bruxelles)
Durée interview : 11h
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt et Cedric Lecat
Cameraman : Michael Dippold
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non