Sarah B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sarah B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. She recalls antisemitic graffiti; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in March 1940; pervasive hunger and sickness; her father's death from starvation in May 1942; forced labor; her mother's efforts to raise their spirits; her sister receiving extra food after singing for H?ayim Rumkowski; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; learning of the crematoria; transfer to Ludwigshafen, then Unterlu?ss; slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; assistance from other prisoners en route; surgery on her injured foot in the hospital; secretly writing about her experiences; liberation by British troops in April 1945; transfer to Kalmar, Sweden for recuperation; marriage to a survivor in Stockholm in 1946; and emigration to the United States in 1947. Mrs. B. discusses her guilt immediately after the war because she was the sole family survivor; visiting Auschwitz in 1979 with her daughter; the pain of reliving her experiences; and writing and speaking about her experiences. She shows photographs and her book.

2 videocassettes