Ana V. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ana V., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926. She recounts her large, extended family; attending public school; German invasion on September 1, 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; killings of those who disobeyed; ghettoization; slave labor in a factory; starvation; her older brother smuggling sugar to make candy to sell; her father's refusal to serve in the Jewish police; Ḥayim Rumkowski's speech before a round-up of children and elderly, which included her younger brother (she never saw him again); a public hanging; release from a round-up by a German; deportation with her family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her father and brother; transfer with her mother to Stutthof; receiving extra food for singing to a kapo; she and her mother suffering from typhus; sharing extra food with her mother; her death; losing hope; evacuation by train, then ship; saving a non-Jewish prisoner from death; an Allied bombing; believing she had been killed; the non-Jewish prisoner saving her; a prisoner committing suicide so her sister would go on without her; transfer to another ship; embarkation in Kiel; hospitalization; liberation; traveling to Munich with a friend; assistance from the Red Cross; and a year's hospitalization.

4 videocassettes