The Jews of this town were forced into the synagogue and burned alive (it's not clear whether she is talking about the Jews from Mielec or the Jews from the other town). The Judenrat confiscated the Jews' valuables and gave them to the Germans in exchange for a promise that they would not have to leave Mielic but the next day they were rounded up and taken to another town. Lichtman's husband was killed when a large stone was dropped on his head (she said previously that she married after the German invasion, but here she says she got married in May, 1939). She and her new husband had planned to flee to the Soviet Union but found that it was impossible. Lichtman married her fiance and moved to a town called Mielic (?). They brought mentally ill people from an asylum to the town and mistreated them. She saw with her own eyes how the Germans harrassed and mistreated the Jews every day, including beard shaving. A few days later Lichtman went to Krakow to live in the Jewish quarter.
Lichtman and the other women managed to bring their men back to town for burial but they were harrassed by the Polish peasants. Lichtman witnessed her father being shot in a wood, along with many other men of the town. The Germans immediately took the men for forced labor.
When the Germans came the family was living in a small town near Krakow. Lichtman was 13 years old when she moved to Krakow with her parents. After several seconds Lanzmann begins the interview. The camera sometimes focuses on Lichtman's husband.
Two dolls sit on a table in front of them and Lichtman sews clothes on another one. At Lanzmann's urging, Lichtman sews doll clothes during the interview this is a duty she used to perform in Sobibor.įILM ID 3270 - Camera Rolls #1-4- 01:00:18 to 01:34:00Īda Lichtman and her husband sit on a couch. She talks about Franz Stangl and Gustav Wagner and relates a story about a Dutch transport where the prisoners were given postcards to write home before they were murdered. She was chosen to do the SS laundry in Sobibor and remembers cleaning dolls and toys seized from a transport of children for the SS families. Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5023 | Film ID: 3270, 3271, 3272, 3273, 3274, 3275, 3276, 3277Īda (Eda) Lichtman talks about her experiences in the Krakow ghetto, her father's murder, and her transport to Sobibor.
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