Ruth B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ruth B., who was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and moved to Sofia when her father's business burned down. She recalls attending French school; anti-Jewish restrictions beginning in 1941, including wearing the yellow star; her brother's draft for forced labor; his warning they were not to get on trains if ordered to do so; his suggestion that she join the resistance; deportation orders in May 1943; refusing to consider leaving her parents; entrusting possessions with non-Jewish friends; non-Jewish neighbors cursing the transport organizers; arrival in Khaskovski; welcome by local Jews; learning Hebrew and becoming a Zionist; joining a leftist group; traveling to Sofia a few times; liberation; returning to their home; friends returning their possessions; completing high school; attending medical school; meeting her future husband (he worked for HIAS); emigrating to Israel in 1949; visiting her parents; and moving her mother to Israel after her father's death. Ms. B. discusses her desire for her children to live in Israel.

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