Language:
English
Pages:
107 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1946
Keywords:
Peltc, Dr. Moses.
;
Levy, Herman.
;
Spiegel, Gustav.
;
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Birkenau (Concentration camp)
;
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
;
Jews, East European.
;
Jewish ghettos.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust survivors.
;
Women authors.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
Ludwikowice KÅ‚odzkie (Poland)
;
Kielce (Poland)
;
Malchow (Germany)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
This memoir was originally written by Mildred Feferman-Wasoff in the years 1945-46 in Polish. She started writing in a Swedish hospital, right after her liberation. In 1979, the memoir was translated into English by the author. It is a detailed account of her experiences of persecution while being an adolescent, starting with 09/01/1939, the outbreak of World War II. After a short introduction of the Jewish community of Kielce, it covers the persecution of Jews in Kilece, the establishment of the Kielce ghetto, and the doomed fate of many inmates. The ghetto was liquidated in August 1942, and she was among 1600 people who were not immediately selected to be deported to a concentration camp or shot. She had falsely pretended to be a corsetiere. She had to work at loading and unloading, then sorting out mountains of clothing usurped by murder and deportations, later she worked for an organization to support the war, N.V.D. She gives testimony of many atrocities that happened in the camp. Among them the killing of 43 children during May 1943. She was selected to work with her brother Moniek to work at Ludwikow (Ludwigshütte), where wagons for war use were produced. Three children had managed to escape and joined them there. The camp existed until summer 1944. 200 - 300 prisoners lived within the factory. In August 1944 the working camp was closed and the prisoners evacuated to Auschwitz. She then gives a shocking description of life in Auschwitz-Birkenau. In December 1944, she was transferred to Ravensbruck. Her liberation took place in Malchow, Germany. On April 26, 1945, a transport of 1500 women took off to Sweden, thanks to an intervention of Count Bernadotte of Sweden.
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