Rena C. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rena C., who was born in Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Poland in 1933. She recalls her affluent household; a large, extended family; German invasion; ghettoization; children smuggling food; her father's privileged position as a tailor; deportations of almost all the Jews in fall 1942; forced labor sorting the deportees' possessions; deportation with her parents, brother, and other relatives to Bliz?yn in May 1943; her parents hiding them when children were taken; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; separation from the males; finding a cabbage to give to her aunt on her birthday; thinking and speaking about food constantly; hiding with her aunt, cousin, and mother during the evacuation, knowing she could not walk; liberation by Soviet troops; Red Cross assistance; filming by the Soviets; returning home; learning her father and brother had been killed; only one uncle and aunt returning from her large family; antisemitic remarks by Poles; smuggling themselves to Germany; living in a displaced persons camp near Berlin; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. C. discusses her emotional and physical scars; her mother's early death due to her experiences; seldom speaking about the war years except to other survivors; and recently sharing her story with her children.

2 videocassettes