Malka R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Malka R., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland in 1919. She recalls her family's relative affluence, orthodoxy, and closeness; attending Jewish and public schools; loss of her father's business due to antisemitism in 1937-1938; one brother's military draft in August 1939 (he eventually traveled to Israel); German invasion in September; ghettoization; visiting her brother's family in ?owicz (she never saw them again); pervasive hunger; a public hanging of ten innocent people; the ghetto's liquidation; separation from her father (she never saw him afterward); transfer to ?o?dz? with her mother and sisters; factory labor; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother (she perished); remaining with her two sisters; help from a cousin; hiding with her sisters and another prisoner during a selection; a block leader who exposed them; train transfer to Halbstadt; forced factory labor; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to ?o?dz?; marriage; her daughter's birth; and emigration to join her brother in Israel in 1950, and then to the United States in 1957. Mrs. R. discusses her family's postwar hardships; nightmares; sharing her story with her daughter; missing the happiness of her prewar life; and pervasive painful memories. She shows photographs.

2 videocassettes