Sally R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sally R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1923, one of six sisters. She recounts antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; expropriation of her father's business; his death; one sister's deportation; communications from her from Gru?nberg; marriage in 1943; ghettoization; living with her husband's family and one sister; forced factory labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; deportation of her mother, other sisters, and sister's child (they did not survive); arranging to join her sister in Gru?nberg; transfer with her husband and sister to the Sosnowiec ghetto, then Gru?nberg; slave labor in a textile factory; occasionally seeing her husband; hospitalization; her sisters' visits; assistance from the prisoner doctor; her husband's transfer in 1944; a death march in January 1945 to Helmbrechts, Zwodau, then toward the Czech border; briefly escaping with one sister; another escape with her sisters and two friends; hiding with a Czech farmer, then a woman in town for three weeks; liberation by United States troops; Red Cross assistance; hospitalization; traveling with her sisters to Plzen?, Prague, and Ostrava; learning her husband had survived; reunion with him in Be?dzin; living in Budapest for nine months; joining her sisters in Germany; and emigration to the United States in 1949.

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