Lilly T. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lilly T., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1928, the youngest of seven children. She recalls her comfortable childhood; German invasion; hiding in bunkers during round-ups; attending a clandestine school; her brothers' deportation to labor camps; ghettoization; pervasive hunger; forced factory labor making military uniforms; her father hiding when the ghetto was liquidated (he perished); deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her mother and a newborn sibling (they were gassed); grueling appels; helping her sisters (they did not survive); working in a munitions factory; random selections; evacuation to Ravensbru?ck in January 1945; transfer to Malchow; liberation from a death march in Parchim by United States troops; returning to Poland; briefly staying with friends; moving to Germany; reunion with her four brothers; emigration to the United States in 1952; and marriage in 1954. Mrs. T. discusses her compulsion to share her experiences, including with her children; visiting Auschwitz in 1979; and recurring nightmares. She shows photographs.

2 videocassettes