Haiden Bowman
Mr. Neuburger
COM 101-10117 March 2013
Edith
Coliver
The first Netflix
video I watched was an interview with Edith Coliver. Edit was seventy-seven
years old when the interview took place in San Francisco, California. The day a
gentleman named Joseph interviewed Edith was August 26th, 1999.
Edith was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on July 26, 1922. Her immediate family
consisted of two brothers, her mother and father. Her brother’s names were
Harold and Ernest. Harold was born in
1928 and Ernest was born in 1929. She was the oldest of the three children. Her
mother’s name was Hedwig. Her father’s name was Fritz Simon.
Edith Coliver had
a best friend growing up who she was separated from. Her best friends name was
Gertrude Mars and she lived on the same street as Edith Coliver’s family. Edith
mentions memories where she and Gertrude played together in the streets with
Gertrude’s older sister. They played and biked in a nearby forest and pulled
many pranks together. In 1938 Edith’s family left and when she returned in 1946
she received the news that Gertrude had died in an extermination camp.
Edith describes
her childhood home as a large house. It was a three story house and the gym
teacher lived on the very top floor. She described her family as a family that
would have been in the middle class. They weren’t rich, they weren’t poor, but
they were doing well on their own.
Edith had to sit
through trials that focused on extermination camps. She knew of some of the
practices, but she heard of a few new ways. She heard of bodies being covered
in pits after killed. Like everyone else, Edith was in denial. Edith describes
the smell of the camps as awful. You could smell the blood. I enjoyed watching
this interview with Joseph and Edith because she vividly described what the
holocaust time era was like. (Coliver)
Malka
Klin Baran
Malka
Klin Baran was interviewed by Shulemit B on January 6th, 1997 in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. At the time of the interview Malka was seventy years
old. Her birthday was January 30th, 1937 and was born in the middle
of Warsaw, Poland. Her mother’s family was originally from Warsaw.
Malka
lived in a small one bedroom apartment where her father owned a print shop. She
describes their home as one room with a living room and kitchen. They didn’t
have any electricity. Malka describes her family as lower middle class. Malka had a younger brother who she didn’t
speak much of. When Malka was fifteen she liked reading, riding bikes, playing
outside and walking to the city with her father. She attended a private school
and notes that her mother’s sister was a secretary at the school and that’s how
they were able to attend.
The
German soldiers figured it be okay to live normal lives in a negative
direction. They ordered people to wear scarbes on their arms. All of Malka’s
fathers machinery for the print shop was taken away and her father was sent
away to work for the Germans. She was sent to work with girls to clean in the
ghettos. She earned coupons for food.
Ghetto was established in 1941. Children couldn’t play outside after certain
hours. When she worked in the ghetto she was about fourteen years old. Everyone
hoped that it would end with the Germans, but at that point it was nowhere near
an end. The Germans sent people out of town to work at different places.
Malka
said it was the worst part of the holocaust when she was fourteen. Her brother
was killed in 1943. Her father and mother woke her up when it was still dark.
They quietly put layers of clothes on. Her father gave her mother gold coins.
Moments after the Germans busted down their front door and pulled them all to
the streets where everyone was placed on one side or the other. At that point
they were placed in lines of five. Molly, a worker of Malka’s fathers, was
separated. She was taken away to a factory of metal. Malka was kept in a small
ghetto while her father and brother were working for the railroad. One day they
didn’t come back. She was told they were shot in the back. Malka tells us that
after that she had a bad memory block. I enjoyed learning about Malka and her
family because she is definitely an inspirational person. (Baran)
Works Cited
Baran, M. K. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved 03 10,
2013, from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwp5wg6y-MU&list=PLBDFF7484119FCCAE&index=13
Coliver, E. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved 03 10,
2013, from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EjTU4iIII&list=PLBDFF7484119FCCAE&index=1
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