Sophie B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sophie B., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. She recalls growing up in Tarnobrzeg; German occupation; fleeing with her family to Radomys?l, then Mielec; carrying wood and digging ditches in 1941; forced transfer with her parents and sister by cattle car to Mie?dzyrzecz in March 1942; obtaining an outside job with her sister; visiting her parents; sharing food with her father; learning of the massacres of Jews in Mie?dzyrzecz; being hidden with her sister by a Polish civil officer; fleeing to Warsaw, posing as non-Jews; briefly meeting her brother in Radomys?l (she never saw him again); traveling to Miechocin with her sister; being hidden by a Polish family friend; volunteering to replace his daughter as a forced laborer in Germany; using her papers to go to Stuttgart posing as a Polish slave laborer; working at a hotel; arranging for her sister to join her; meeting her future husband who was posing as a Christian Pole; liberation in 1945; re-establishing their Jewish identity; reunion with her fiance in February 1946; marriage; and emigration to the United States.

3 videocassettes