Zlata G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Zlata G., who was born in Kostopol, Poland in 1921. She recalls the German invasion in September 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with her brother upon the advice of retreating Soviet soldiers; finding her sister at the Soviet border; traveling to Voronezh where they had a cousin; two months later traveling east by freight train to escape the advancing German army; her sister and brother-in-law leaving the train in Kzyl-Orda due to their son's illness; living with her brother in Samarqand; extreme deprivation; a typhus epidemic; her brother-in-law finding them so they could provide additional food for his child; returning to Kzyl-Orda with help from a Polish friend; avoiding round-ups for forced labor; her brother's arrest; and his release by a Jewish officer. Mrs. G. tells of fleeing to Germany; marriage in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1948. She details many hardships and arduous conditions during the war.

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