Regina S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Regina S., who was born in Gro?jec, Poland in 1923. She recalls her close extended family; attending school in Warsaw; German invasion; ghettoization; transfer with her family to Bia?obrzegi; ghettoization; volunteering with one sister for slave labor in Kruszyna; learning the ghetto had been liquidated; transfer to Pionki; receiving food from Polish workers; a public hanging of escapees; transfer in July 1944 to Auschwitz, then Hindenburg; her sister's hospitalization; removing her sister from the hospital when learning of the evacuation in January 1945; supporting her sister during a death march; train transport to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops in April 1945; living in the displaced persons camp; marriage; registering in Stuttgart for emigration to the United States; and emigration in 1950. Mrs. S. discusses constant fear of separation from her sister; attributing her survival to their remaining together; conditions in different camps; pervasive nightmares and painful memories; and recognizing she conveyed her pain to her children despite reluctance to share her story, wanting to shield them. She shows photographs.

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