Sarah F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sarah F., who was born in Jaros?aw, Poland in 1923. She recalls being raised in Krako?w; pervasive antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; ghettoization; food distribution by the Judenrat; her mother's death; her father's and siblings' deportation (she never saw them again); one of her brothers escaping from the train; transfer to P?aszo?w; slave labor at an ammunition factory; assistance from a Pole; smuggling bullets to the camp underground; public hangings; cleaning Kommandant Amon Goeth's house; transport to Pionki, Auschwitz, and Gleiwitz; assistance from a German guard; transport to Nordhausen in December 1944; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops in April 1945. Mrs. F. describes learning in Nordermoor that none of her family had survived; joining her girlfriend in Landsberg displaced persons camp in December 1945; marriage in 1948; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. She discusses the importance of friendship to her survival and help from HIAS and the Joint.

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