Irma F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Irma F., who was born in Lobens, Germany (presently ?obz?enica, Poland), the youngest of six children. She recounts expulsion from school as a Jew; her parents sending her to live in ?o?dz? in 1939; her mother joining her with her youngest brother and a sister in August; her mother leaving to retrieve possessions from their home; German invasion; learning from her mother's correspondence that her father had been taken to a concentration camp; traveling to Bydgoszcz, posing as a German, to visit her brother; learning he had been killed; traveling to ?obz?enica; finding her home abandoned; a non-Jewish neighbor warning her to leave and giving her valuables her parents had left with him; returning to ?o?dz?; using the valuables to pay to have her brother smuggled to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; meeting her future husband; working at a post office; deportation with her sister, her future husband, and his family to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer to Hambu?hren; slave labor in a salt mine; a brutal beating; recovering with assistance from her future husband's mother and a German guard; death march to Bergen-Belsen; sharing food with her sister; her future husband's mother helping her and her sister when they had typhus; liberation by British troops; the death of her future husband's mother; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage; moving to Hamburg; her daughter's birth; emigration to the United States; her second daughter's birth; and the deaths of her husband and older daughter. Ms. F. notes most of her large extended family was killed in the Holocaust. She shows photographs.

2 videocassettes