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Edith W. |
“We lived with my mother even after we got married...My oldest sister had gotten sick and died when I had my baby. I had the baby in one room and she died in the other room. We always remained under the care of my mother. Since I was the baby she wanted to keep me with her...then they opened the ghetto and we had to go there...It was a terrible process. Moving into one room with so many other people. We were squeezed in living with strangers ...So it was my mother, me, the baby - my husband had run away to Russia and left me with the baby - my sister, two nieces and my sister’s husband.
They were cleansing the ghetto and they took the children, I happened to be in the ghetto that day, I don’t know why. I couldn’t do anything, they grabbed my boy from my hands and took him away. I could’ve screamed my lungs out, they wouldn’t have cared. They took him and put him on the truck just like you see in the pictures. I was mentally broken when they took him...I was close to a breakdown, but I had to work. My friends pulled me to work. People supported me, my girlfriends helped me.
They took us to Plaszow while Krakow was being liquidated...They killed my mother. They took my sister and my niece and I don’t know what happened to them. We heard that they were being taken to camps and killed, but we didn’t have a lot of knowledge about what was going on.”
Holocaust Testimony (HVT 2956)
Fortunoff Video Archive
for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale University Library