Marie B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Marie B., who was born in Kuchava, Czechoslovakia in 1926, one of seven children. She recounts her father's death when she was three; attending school in Kuz?mino and Mukachevo; Hungarian occupation in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced relocation with her family to the Munka?cs ghetto during Passover 1944; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her mother upon arrival; transfer with her sisters and aunt to Birkenau; sorting deportees' possessions in Canada Kommando, which provided them with extra food and a close view of the gas chambers and crematoria; sharing food with her sisters and aunt; the Sonderkommando revolt; a death march to Gleiwitz, followed by their transport to Ravensbru?ck; slave labor at an airplane factory in Neustadt-Glewe; assistance from a German foreman and French POWs; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. B. describes their journey home via Prague; marriage in 1948; escaping to Israel in 1966; and emigration from Germany to the United States in 1969. She discusses the importance to her survival of being with her relatives; relations among prisoners in the camps; her reluctance to share her experiences with her children; and loss of belief in God after the war.

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