Paula K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Paula K. who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1924, the oldest of six children. She recalls her father building a bunker prior to the war; German invasion; ghettoization; family members hiding from aktions in their bunker; deportation of many relatives; selling clothes for food; and forced labor in a munitions plant. Mrs. K. recounts episodes when she was almost killed; carrying bombs for partisans; liquidation of the small ghetto when her mother and three siblings were killed; working with her father, brother and sister in HASAG-Pelzery; hiding with her sister during the camp's liquidation; and liberation by Soviet troops the following day. She describes finding an apartment in Cze?stochowa with her sister; searching for her father and brother; smuggling herself into Terezi?n to see her brother; learning her father had starved to death; marriage in 1945; living in several Austrian displaced persons camps where her daughter was born; and emigration to the United States in 1953.

2 videocassettes