There’s a hole in one of the socks near where the toes should be. Is that where an elderly female prisoner deliberately knitted a defect? Is it traces of use? Or is it just because the socks were knitted eighty years ago? Other than the hole, the socks have held up well. They are a Read More
Articles by Victoria Martinez
Documenting the Documenter: Piecing together the history of Polish Holocaust survivor-historian Luba Melchior
“Testimony received by Institute Assistant Luba Melchior.” This sentence appears on 61 of the 512 complete witness testimonies collected from Polish survivors of Nazi persecution by the Polish Research Institute (PIZ) in Lund, Sweden, in 1945 and 1946.1 Yet, Polish Holocaust survivor Luba Melchior did not leave her own testimony with the PIZ survivor historical Read More
