Series: Women during the Holocaust: Individual Stories

Explore some oral history testimony excerpts describing the experiences of women during the Holocaust.

Eva Rappoport Edmands describes packing to leave Vienna for France in 1938

Blanka Rothschild describes forced labor in the Ravensbrück camp

Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes smuggling activities in the Warsaw ghetto

Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman describes a dangerous journey to reach partisan territory in the Naroch Forest, Poland

Madeline Deutsch describes the sacrifices her mother made to help her survive

Nesse Galperin Godin describes seeing her reflection in a mirror upon liberation

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