Ruth R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ruth R., who was born in Pabianice, Poland in 1927. She describes her older brother and sister; her family's relative affluence; German invasion; ghettoization; round-ups including her father and brother (she never saw them again); deportation with her mother and sister to the ?o?dz? ghetto; forced factory labor; deportation to Auschwitz in summer 1944; separation from her mother and sister (she never saw them again); transfer to Bergen-Belsen, then Hasag-Leipzeig; slave labor in a munitions factory; nurturing from an older woman; receiving extra food from a French POW; deportation by train; being wounded in an Allied bombing; abandonment by the guards; assistance from Soviet troops; hospitalization for a year; returning to ?o?dz?, then Pabianice; living in Krako?w; marriage; being smuggled to Germany by Berih?ah; living in Salzburg, Wasseralfingen, and Regensburg displaced persons camps; her son's birth; emigration to the United States; and the births of two daughters. Mrs. R. discuses her severe postwar depression; not wanting children due to her experiences, but realizing they "are my life"; her husband's and son's deaths; pervasive fears; believing she is terribly scarred, though she looks "normal"; and sharing only parts of her story with her children.

2 videocassettes