Hila B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Hila B., who was born in Jędrzejów, Poland in 1919, the seventh of eight children. She recounts her family's move to Łódź when she was six months old; their orthodoxy and relative affluence; participating in Gordonyah and Maccabi; her father's death in 1936; working to help support the family; marriage in March 1939; her brothers' and husband's military draft; German invasion; return of three brothers and her husband; visiting her injured brother in Skierniewice; his return; several of her siblings moving to Warsaw and her mother to Piotrków Trybunalski; joining her; a sister and niece arriving; round-up of her husband in 1942; working in a factory; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; being assigned to gather belongings from homes of deported Jews; her mother's deportation; forced labor in a textile factory; transfer to a work camp with her sister, her sister's husband, and their child; and one brother's death.

20 videocassettes