Sarra K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sarra K., who was born in Lipenสน, Russia in 1915, one of eight children. She recalls her family's poverty; one brother's emigration to Palestine; leaving school at fifteen to help support her family; her father's death; marriage to a non-Jew at age eighteen; the births of a son and daughter; German invasion in 1941; many Jews fleeing, including some of her siblings; mass killings, one including her mother; her exemption because she was married to a non-Jew; staying inside at all times; learning they were scheduled to be killed; hiding in a forest with her husband and children; joining the partisans; her children's placement with a family, then in an orphanage; her assignments as a baker and a sentry; visiting her children once; a German blockade in 1943; living in dug-outs; liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944; reunion with her children in Asipovichy; her husband's death in 1976; and continuing antisemitism. Ms. K. discusses many hardships in her life; willing herself to live during the war in order to see her children again; partisan indifference to her being Jewish; never asking her children about their experiences, not wanting them to relive their pain; and continuing contact with her partisan leader.

3 videocassettes