Pauline M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Pauline M., who was born in a small eastern European village in 1903. Mrs. M. describes prewar life in the peaceful village of her childhood; its disruption by instances of German and Polish antisemitism during the first World War and her life in Kielce, where her parents moved after World War I, and in ?o?dz?, where she moved after she married in 1930. She speaks of the German occupation of ?o?dz? and tells how she, her husband, and their two young daughters escaped to Kielce on the day before they were to be deported from ?o?dz?. Life in occupied Kielce, both before and after its ghettoization, is described. Mrs. M. also relates how she and her husband were able to live on the Aryan side in Warsaw and Cze?stochowa after fleeing Kielce in 1943, describing their continued resourcefulness in supporting themselves and eluding the Germans. She recalls her liberation by the Russians in Cze?stochowa; her postwar reunion with her daughters, who had hidden with Polish gentiles and in an orphanage; her return to the home of her parents, who had been killed during the war; and her emigration to the United States.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)