Betty B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Betty B., who was born in approximately 1924, one of seven children. She recounts living in ?an?cut, Poland; attending Polish and Hebrew schools; one brother's emigration to Argentina; an "atmosphere" of antisemitism; German invasion; her sister and family joining them; anti-Jewish restrictions; another brother fleeing to Soviet-occupied territory; living in Ra?czyna; her father's deportation in May 1942 (she never saw him again); a round-up with her mother, two sisters, a brother-in-law and his children in July; escaping; joining two sisters in another town; hiding with non-Jews in several places, including Wysoka; her older sister's denouncement and arrest; hiding with her younger sister and three-year-old nephew in Sonina; assistance from her brother-in-law who was hiding elsewhere; learning of his denouncement and murder; liberation by Soviet troops in summer 1944; joining a group of survivors, including her future husband; traveling to Krako?w, then Wroc?aw; marriage in December 1945; living in displaced persons camps in Germany; assistance from UNRRA; her son's birth in 1950; and emigration to the United States. Ms. B. notes many non-Jews who helped them in hiding, and her ever-present fear, even after the arrival of Soviet troops.

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