Rose K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rose K., who lived in Be?chato?w, Poland, one of three sisters. She recounts her father's death when she was very young; working for her sister as a dressmaker; German invasion; fleeing to ?o?dz?; returning to find their home had been robbed; her non-Jewish landlord assisting her after a severe beating by a German soldier; forced labor; a public hanging; transfer to ?o?dz? ghetto with her mother, sisters, and her sister's children; slave labor in a textile factory; assistance from cousins with whom she is still close; after two years, deportation to Auschwitz with a sister and nieces, then to Sasel a week later; slave labor clearing bombing rubble in Hamburg; one niece's death; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; three months hospitalization in Bergen; transfer to Sweden; emigration to the United States; and marriage in 1953. Ms. K. discusses her close relationship with her surviving niece and her husband.

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