Irene R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Irene R., who was born in Vynohradiv, Ukraine in 1922 to a Hasidic family of twelve children. She recalls visits to grandparents in rural areas; one brother's emigration to the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations resulting in their impoverishment; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from the males, her mother, younger siblings, and relatives; remaining with two sisters, an aunt, and cousins; her sister giving birth to a son (he was taken away by the Jewish midwife); assisting and assistance from her relatives; becoming numb; transfer to Zittau; slave labor in a factory; liberation by Soviet troops; wanting to kill Germans, especially children, for what had happened to Jewish children; traveling to Budapest, then Satu Mare; reunion with two brothers; living in Backnang displaced persons camp and others; assistance from UNRRA; emigration with one sister and two brothers to the United States in 1946; assistance from HIAS; meeting her brother, aunts, and uncles (other siblings went to Israel); marriage; and her children's births. Ms. R. discusses incidents in camps and many relatives who were killed. She shows photographs and documents.

6 videocassettes