Regina S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Regina S., who was born in Bushtyna, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of five children. She recalls attending public and religious schools; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced transfer with her family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto in April 1944; their deportation to Auschwitz; managing to stay with her older sister; a severe beating for taking extra food offered by other prisoners; transfer to Stutthof in September; forced farm labor with her sister and cousins; receiving extra food from one farmer; a death march beginning in February 1945; contracting typhus (her cousins died from it); liberation by Soviet troops; amputation of toes; an extended recuperation; returning to Bushtyna; a futile attempt to recover family property; moving to Prague; reunion with a brother (all other family members had perished); marriage; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. S. discusses her depression after liberation; amazement at what she had survived; and recurring nightmares. She shows documents and photographs.

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