Shawn B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Shawn B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1940 and moved to Vilnius soon after. She recalls her mother putting a cross on her and leaving her outside the ghetto near a church on a Sunday; being taken home by a judge and his wife who were helping many Jews; not being allowed outside until she spoke Lithuanian; a brief visit from her mother (the judge had helped her escape from Kaiserwald); arrest with her foster family (they were killed); placement in prison with only women; a German taking her to adopt when the others were shot; placement in a Catholic orphanage; praying her mother would return after the war; her mother's arrival; briefly living in ?o?dz? and in Berlin for a year; emigration to the United States; her mother becoming a registered nurse; and her marriage. Ms. B. discusses not ever wanting to be indebted to anyone as a result of her experiences; her postwar identity as a Catholic and slowly feeling Jewish; integration of her mother's story into "Anya: A Novel"; and continuing gratitude to the family that saved her.

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