Ida I. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ida I., one of seven children, who was born in Romania in 1919. She recalls her family's orthoodox lifestyle in Bistrit?a; increasing antisemitism; Hungarian occupation; conscription of Jewish men; transport to a collection site in a forest; deportation to Auschwitz; seeing her father for the last time; a translator explaining the true situation while pretending to repeat German words; and sharing food with her sister. Mrs. I. describes their transport to Augsburg, Germany; forced labor in a Messerschmitt factory; improved living conditions; observing Yom Kippur; receiving food from German workers; singing during Allied bombings; evacuation to Mu?hldorf in the spring of 1945; the guards telling them to leave the train and shooting those who did; a Wehrmacht officer saving them by expediting the train's departure; and liberation from the train near Munich. She recounts recovering with her sister's help in Feldafing; meeting her husband; returning to Romania; finding her brothers; her husband's 1952 arrest as a Zionist; his release; and their emigration to the United States in 1965. Mrs. I. discusses many details of camp life and the importance of sharing in order to survive.

2 videocassettes