Mira K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mira K., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1916, one of eight children. She recalls being the only unmarried child; German invasion; her fiance? fleeing (she never saw him again); ghettoization; assistance from non-Jewish, former customers; losing relatives during round-ups, including children; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from all the family except one niece; being shot; transfer to Oederan ten weeks later; forced labor in a munitions factory; hospitalization; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; difficultly recovering; traveling to Landsberg displaced persons camp; finding a nephew (her only other surviving relative); several hospitalizations; emigration to the United States in 1949 to join aunts and her niece; marriage; and becoming a nurse. Ms. K. notes she and her niece saved each other by remaining together; continuing illness resulting from her experiences; and all of her relatives who were killed. She shows documents and photographs.

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