Miriam W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Miriam W., who was born in approximately 1929 and lived in L?viv, Poland. She recalls antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; hiding during round-ups; being found; her mother urging her to run; escaping; finding her older sister, who did not look Jewish; her sister arranging their trip to Warsaw, posing as non-Jews; a friend finding her a servant's job; leaving, fearing denouncement; her friend finding her another job; frequently traveling to her employer's mother in Otwock; her employer briefly hiding a Jewish child; watching the ghetto burn; her sister bribing an official to obtain Polish papers for them both, which later confirmed she was not Jewish when her employer became suspicious; staying with her employer's mother in Otwock; contacting her sister after the war; traveling to Lodz to join her; continuing to use their Polish papers due to antisemitism; traveling to Austria; living in a displaced persons camp; assistance from UNRRA; emigrating alone to the United States in 1946 with an orphans' group; brief quarantine at Ellis Island; living with a kind foster family; attending school; and marriage in 1950. Ms. W. discusses dreams about her mother sustaining her in hiding; "deep scars" resulting from her experiences; and, after years of silence, sharing her experiences with her children, which opened a "new path" between them.

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