Rita K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1935. She recalls being in their summer home when Germany invaded; living in the Piotrko?w ghetto; hiding with her sister outside the ghetto with assistance from family friends in 1941-1942; returning to her parents in the ghetto; cleaning up after the ghetto's liquidation; transfer with her family to a labor camp in 1943; separation from her father during a selection; deportation to Ravensbru?ck with her mother and sister in 1944; her mother stealing potatoes for them, without which they would not have survived; their transfer to Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops. Mrs. K. describes hospitalization with her sister; learning their father had perished; recuperating with her mother and sister in Malmo?, Sweden; living with an uncle in Brussels; and their emigration to the United States in 1950. She discusses her mother's chronic problems resulting from the war; her sister's fears; and being questioned, when she became a U.S. citizen, as a potential criminal since she had been a concentration camp inmate.

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