Rosalie S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rosalie S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922, the oldest of three children. Ms. S. recounts her family's orthodoxy; German invasion; her father fleeing east (he did not return); briefly moving to a nearby town; ghettoization in Krako?w; deportation of her family (she never saw them again); marriage; daily forced labor; hiding her grandmother (she was discovered and deported); frequent murders of Jews; her husband's transfer to P?aszo?w; her deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; public hanging of a friend who had helped her; a brutal beating; praying to be shot; helping a woman give birth (they disposed of the baby in the latrine); transfer to Cze?stochowa; helping a friend avoid selection; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; returning to Krako?w; her husband's return six months later; living in a displaced persons camp in Austria; assistance from UNRRA; her son's birth; emigration to the United States in 1949; and the births of two more children. Ms. S. discusses nightmares and being overprotective of her children due to her experiences; wanting to forget much of what happened to her; attending a survivor gathering with her daughter; and an emotional trip to Krako?w with her husband and sons.

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