Frieda G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Frieda G., who was born in 1923 in Odrzywo??, Poland, the fifth of nine children. She recounts antisemitic violence leading to their moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; ghettoization; her parents returning to Odrzywo?? with her four younger siblings (she never saw them again); one brother escaping; another dying from physical exhaustion; working as a tailor; marriage in 1943; pregnancy; giving birth prematurely (the baby was not alive) which resulted in illness; her sister's deportation; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; separation of men and women; encountering her sister, who protected her; transfer to Halbstadt six weeks later; hospitalization; a German health care worker caring for her; a partial recovery; her sister obtaining extra food for her; liberation by Soviet troops; cutting an SS woman's hair for revenge; her sister hiding her when Soviet soldiers sought women to rape; assistance from the Red Cross; returning to ?o?dz?; learning her husband was alive; traveling to Feldafing; reunion with her husband; living in a displaced persons camp; her daughter's birth in 1946; reunion with her brother; emigration to the United States in 1949; and her son's birth. Ms. G. sings a song from the ghetto. She discusses physical and emotional illnesses resulting from her experiences and the importance of her sister to her survival. She shows photographs.

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