Rose S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Jaworzno, Poland. She recounts German invasion in 1939 when she was five; briefly fleeing with her family to Krako?w; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with her family in a bunker during round-ups; fleeing to Sosnowiec; ghettoization in the Srodula section; her father arranging a hiding place for her with a Polish woman and placing her baby sister with another family; hiding in the bunker when the ghetto was liquidated in July 1943; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); escaping with her aunt; their arrest; escaping with asistance from a Jewish policeman; hiding with her aunt, uncle, and younger sister; her sister's discovery and deportation in February 1944; moving with her aunt to Otmucho?w, as non-Jews using false papers; their arrest, interrogation, and release after she demonstrated Catholic prayers; working with her aunt in a convent; hiding their cousins, who were escapees from a death march; and liberation by Soviet troops in Nysa in April 1945. Mrs. S. recounts living in orphanages in Krako?w, Rabka, then Bielsko-Bia?a; antisemitic violence; moving with her aunt to Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; and emigrating to the United States.

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