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Wassersztrum, Sonia

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Walzer, Benzyon
Weinblum, Léo
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Sonia Wassersztrum was born in ?ochów, Poland in 1912, one of ten children. She recalls working in Warsaw starting at age fifteen; moving to a hakhsharat from 1932 to 1933 to prepare for immigration to Palestine; increasing antisemitism; returning to ?ochów; emigrating to Brussels in 1938 (she never saw her family again); joining a Jewish socialist organization; a mock marriage to obtain Belgian citizenship; joining the Resistance; arrest; incarceration at Malines; deportation to Birkenau; useless slave labor; transfer to Canada Kommando; slashing clothing she sorted; close bonds with a group of Belgians; smuggling clothes to friends; the Sonderkommando revolt; a woman giving birth (the baby was killed to save everyone); public hanging of four women who stole explosives; the death march to Leipzig, Malchow, Ravensbrück, and Bunzlau; assistance from friends when she had typhus; obtaining extra food doing farm work and from Red Cross packages; being saved from execution by a guard; liberation by Soviets troops; recuperating in a Red Cross camp; repatriation to Liège and Brussels; and meeting her future husband. Mrs. G. discusses group solidarity and its importance to survival; feeling she had lost everything; sharing her experience with her son; and difficulty believing it happened. She shows photographs.

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

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Code interview : YA/FA/006
Date interview : 06/05/1992
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 3h06
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Yannis Thanassekos et Claire Paulus
Cameraman : Osric Colb
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : oui
Séquençage interview : oui

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Auschwitz / Birkenau | Dossin / Malines/Mechelen | Front de l’Indépendance (F.I.) | Juif / Juive | Malchow / Ravensbrück | Ravensbrück | Résistant / Résistante

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