Stella K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Stella K., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1923. She recalls her happy, comfortable, and observant childhood; antisemitic attacks by children; attending public school; accompanying their maid to Catholic services; moving with her family to Krako?w; German invasion; ghettoization with her parents and sister outside Krako?w; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); working as a nurse; transfer to P?aszo?w; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; selections; Polish civilian workers' indifference to the piles of bodies; transfer to Ravensbru?ck and Malchow; liberation by the Swedish Red Cross in April 1945; recuperating in Sweden; antisemitism of Polish patients; learning that her sister had survived (her parents and brother were killed); marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mrs. K. discusses the pervasive antisemitism in prewar Poland; how the passage of time only increases the pain of her losses; the depressing effect of her experiences on her children, particularly her daughter; the importance of luck to her survival; participating in survivors' organizations; and strong positive feelings for Israel. She shows pictures.

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