Devon
Bennett
Mr.
Neuburger
English
102-118
17
March 2013
Survivor Testimony
“Malka Baran”
Malka Baran was born in Warsaw
Poland in 1927 to a Jewish family that did not celebrate the Jewish culture as
most did. They were a family that did
not follow the religion closely. They moved
when she was one year old to Czestochowa Poland were she spent the next 14
years of her life. She had a brother
that was two years younger than her and they lived a very simple life.
She found out later that her
grandparents were killed and her father stopped believing in God as much after
that loss. In 1929 she said that the
lives of her family changed. The SS
officers came into town and put rules and regulation of the Jews. Their apartment was turned into a ghetto and
they did not go to school and more they worked for the Germans. Shortly after in 41 she was awaken by her
parents early one morning and they went into the street where she her brother
and her father were separated from their mother and they never saw her
again. They were taken to another place
to work and she didn’t remember the name.
Soon after her mother was taken her
father and brother were working on the railroads and were both shot in the back
and killed. She immediately put a block
on her memory and literally can’t remember anything until she was sent to a
concentration camp in 43. This concentration
camp she stayed in until 45 when liberation came. She was always very good with children and so
she decided to help children who were displaced with the war. She soon met her future husband who she
thought of as a brother before she moved to Israel. After moving to Israel he came back from the
United States to ask her to marry him and she did however she because of her
paper work could not move to the United States until 10 months later. When she did they lived in Brooklyn and had
children.
1. “…I survived that’s what I remembered…”
2. “Germans shot people all around me and threw babies
against walls and after that I don’t remember anything.”
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