- First Name
- Miriam
- Last Name
- Tug
- Date of birth
- Age
- Place of birth
- Gender
- female
- Profession
- Maiden name
- Karczewer
- Mother's name
- Father's name
- City
- Transport where from
- Międzyrzec
- Date of transport
- August 1942
- Story
- "We came to the train station, where freight cars were already standing. They started herding people into the wagons. [I held the baby in my arms the whole time. Since I was the last to enter the wagon, I had some air through a crack in the door. [...] I just tried to save the child. Meanwhile, a whole pile of corpses was already lying in the wagon. I climbed over the dead bodies and approached the window, which was closed and boarded up with nails and wire. I tried with all my might and finally managed to open the window. A breath of cold air hit me hard and I lost consciousness. I don't know how long I lay like this, but I saw my wife's sister, Itka, throw herself into the window and jump out. Seeing this, I took my wife, who was already undressed and almost naked, forcibly lifted her and pushed her out the window. I threw her out the way one throws out an apple stub. I didn't look to see if she survived or not. I only heard a shot. Then I heard her voice as she screamed in Polish: 'Child! Baby!' I took the child and leaned out the window with her and threw her as far away from the train as possible so she wouldn't fall close to the wheels. I heard the shot again and fell back into the carriage and fainted again." Miriam and her daughter survived on Aryan papers near Kraków.
- Escape
- from a transport
- Fate
- Yes
- Date of death
- Place of death
Source
AYVWritten testimonies collected in the Yad Vashem institute in Jerusalem; testimony number and the relationship of the witness and the deceased (if known) are provided. O3.3459, rel Chaim Arie Tug
- Record ID
- 697
- Insert date
- 02.03.2024
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