Life After Genocide

Miriam Tauber

Jewish Survivor

In New York City on September 11, 2001, Miriam contrasts her Holocaust experiences with the events transpiring at the very time of her interview. Miriam notes her desire to protect her children and grandchildren from the hatred she experienced.

Gender: Female

DOB: May 19, 1926

City of birth: Nowy Targ

Country of birth: Poland

Ghettos: Stanislawów (Poland)

Went into hiding: Yes

Other experiences: escapes from Aktionen, escapes from the ghettos, escapes from mass shootings, concealment of Jewish identity

 

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  • Miriam Tauber

    Language: English

    Jewish Survivor

    In New York City on September 11, 2001, Miriam contrasts her Holocaust experiences with the events transpiring at the very time of her interview. Miriam notes her desire to protect her children and grandchildren from the hatred she experienced.

    Gender: Female

    DOB: May 19, 1926

    City of birth: Nowy Targ

    Country of birth: Poland

    Ghettos: Stanislawów (Poland)

    Went into hiding: Yes

    Other experiences: escapes from Aktionen, escapes from the ghettos, escapes from mass shootings, concealment of Jewish identity

     

  • Romana Farrington

    Language: English

    Jewish Survivor

    Romana describes growing up in a small Polish town after the war and how her family had to give up most of the space in their home according to Communist rule. They were forced to live together with a family that had an abusive father who tried to attack Romana and her mother.

    Gender: Female
    DOB: Jun 9, 1941
    City of birth: Krosniewice
    Country of birth: Poland
    Ghettos: Warsaw (Poland), Krosniewice (Poland)
    Went into hiding: Yes
    Other experiences: concealment of Jewish identity

     

  • Malka Baran

    Language: English

    Jewish Survivor

    Malka Baran remembers working with children in a displaced persons' camp and notes that it was this work that helped her resume a normal life after the Holocaust.

    Gender: Female
    DOB: January 30, 1927
    City of Birth: Warsaw (Poland)
    Country of Birth: Poland
    Ghettos: Czestochowa (Poland : Ghetto)
    Went into hiding: No
    Other experiences: displaced persons camps

    More videos of Malka Baran

    Malka Baran on Hope

    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=318569032844699

    Malka Baran’s full testimony

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwp5wg6y-MU

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