Pearl G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Pearl G., who was born in Okrouhlic?ka, Czechoslovakia in 1924, one of seven children. She recalls her father's death in 1934; her oldest brother helping support them; their orthodoxy; Hungarian occupation; two brothers and her brother-in-law being drafted for slave labor (they never saw them again); expulsion from school; confiscation of their business; refusing to hide with her mother's non-Jewish friend, not wanting to leave her family; their deportation to the Ti?a?chiv ghetto; deportation four weeks later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother, sister-in-law, and the children; remaining with her sister; encountering cousins from Romania; transfer with her sister and cousins to Unterlu?ss; slave labor in a munitions factory and construction; her cousins sharing extra food with them; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; corpses all over; liberation; hospitalization; her sister's death; transfer to Malmo?, Sweden; two months in a hospital, six months in a sanitarium, and a year in a convalescent home; living with her cousins in Stockholm; learning in 1947 that two sisters and a brother had survived; emigrating in 1949 to join an uncle in the United States; visiting her siblings in Israel in 1955; marriage; and her son's birth in 1959. Ms. G. discusses continuing nightmares and sharing her story with her son when he was older.

4 videocassettes