Helen J. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Helen H., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic harassment; her father's death in 1938; she and her mother and brother joining relatives in Kazimierza Wielka; hearing rumors of a round-up; fleeing; hiding with aid from non-Jews in Dzia?oszyce; traveling to Nowy Korczyn; hiding in a bunker with other Jews; being caught with her mother when they went out for food; a Jewish policeman persuading the German to let them go; hiding in a house with her mother and brother; joining a truckload of Jews since there was no other option; slave labor in Kielce at a munitions factory; her mother's selection two months later (she never saw her again); a doctor who knew them helping her brother when he was sick; transfer to Cze?stochowa in fall 1944, then to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945; remaining with her friend; transfer to Burgau; a death march to Dachau; liberation by United States troops in April; living in a displaced persons camp; reunion with her brother; living in Hamburg; marriage; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States.

3 videocassettes