Celina L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Celina L., who was born in Zbaraz?h?, Poland in 1931. She recalls her family's Zionist commitment; her father's military career; German invasion; Soviet occupation; fleeing to L'viv with her parents in 1940 to avoid Soviet deportation to Siberia; German invasion; ghettoization; smuggling food to her father in Janowska; her mother arranging her escape to Zbaraz?h? with a non-Jew; living with her uncle and aunt; hiding during round-ups; her uncle arranging to hide her with a Ukrainian woman in Mala Berezovyt?s?i?a?; leaving when villagers became suspicious; rejecting an offer to join partisans in the forests; hiding with a Jewish family in Zbaraz?h?; being adopted by a Ukrainian family, posing as a non-Jew; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. L. describes reunion with a friend in Poland; joining Hashomer Hatzair in Bratislava; traveling to Prague with a Jewish orphanage; living in a kibbutz in Germany; joining her friend in Salzschlirf displaced persons camp; preparing for emigration in Aglasterhausen; emigrating to Canada; difficulties with her foster family; and a better placement with another family. Mrs. L. discusses the importance of faith to her survival; gratitude to her Ukrainian adoptive family; and psychological issues resulting from her experience which impacted her child rearing.

3 videocassettes