Sophia R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sophia R., who was born in L?viv, Ukraine in 1941. She recounts her father's incarceration in Janowska; her mother obtaining false papers from non-Jewish friends; living as non-Jews in Zimna Voda; her father's escape and her mother hiding him in their attic without her knowledge; his emergence and being told not to reveal his presence; her sister's birth; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to L'viv; his sister's death from whooping cough at about a year old; living in Paris for five years; learning she was Jewish; emigration to the United States; and surprise at meeting nice Jewish people. Ms. R. discusses her mother's reluctance to discuss their experiences; living with denial and secrets; beginning to come to terms with her experiences after her father published a book and her marriage to a loving man; the birth of her daughter and anxiety when she was thirteen months old, the age when her sister died; recurring nightmares; the pleasure her daughter brought her father and brings to her; and discussing her experiences with her daughter. She shows photographs.

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