Myra L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Myra L., who was born in 1919 in ?o?dz?, Poland. Mrs. L. describes anti-Jewish legislation and extreme antisemitism; German occupation; forced labor; ghettoization; her work in a hospital as a student nurse; deportations; thousands of deaths caused by starvation, including her older brother, younger brother, and mother; the conflict between wanting to help others and the instinct for survival; liquidation of the ghetto; evacuation of the hospital; deportation to Auschwitz; selections; transfer, with a friend, to Freiberg; slave labor; and liberation by United States troops. She recounts recovery and work in a displaced persons camp in Austria and a sanatorium in Italy, where she met her future husband; and her emigration to Sweden and the United States. Mrs. L. discusses her participation in the Israel and American Gatherings of Jewish Holocaust Survivors; her postwar return to religious life; and her relationship with her daughter.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)