Klara S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Klara S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927. She recounts attending a Jewish school; her father's medical practice; bombing of their building during German invasion marking the end of her childhood; illegally entering Soviet-occupied territory with her mother in November; living with relatives in Białystok; her father joining them in spring 1940; arrest by Soviets while illegally attempting to enter Lithuania; brief imprisonment with her mother in Lida; her father's imprisonment in Baranovichi; returning to Białystok in May; living in Slonim; attending a Soviet school; German invasion in June 1941; her father's release; his former patient assisting them to return to Warsaw; living in the Warsaw ghetto; her uncle's non-Jewish maid returning their possessions; not suffering compared to most due to her father's practice; studying with tutors; being caught in a round-up; her father smuggling them out of the Umschlagplatz; obtaining false papers; hiding during round-ups; her father arranging their escape with non-Jewish friends; hiding with non-Jews in Konstancin; hearing of an exchange program for Jews in Warsaw's Hotel Polski; traveling there in summer 1943; placement on the Palestine list; and deportation to Bergen-Belsen.

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