Survivor Testimony

Alyssa Vandiver

ENG Comp 102-118

Mr. Neuburger

18 March 2013

 

Survivor Testimony

Malka Klin Baran

            Malka Baran was born in Warsaw, Poland on January 30, 1927. Her original name was Malka Klin. Malka had two sisters and three brothers. After Malka was a year old she moved to Czestochowa, Poland where she lived for the next fourteen years of her life. Growing up she had a simple childhood, and came from a Jewish family that didn’t really practice their religion. Most of the changes started happening in 1929 when rules were given to all the Jews, she did not go to school and her family now worked for the Germans. In 1941 Baran, her brother, and her father were all separated from her mother and they never saw her again. They were all taken to a work camp, soon after her brother and father were shot and killed. After this happened Malka didn’t remember anything until 1943 when Baran was sent to a concentration camp where she survived until 1945 when the Jews were liberated. She loved children, and like working with them so after the war she worked with children who were displaced. She met her future husband who became her friend. He moved to the United States and she moved to Israel shortly after. She was eventually married and moved to the United States where she lived in Brooklyn.