Aliza R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Aliza R., who was born in Zbaraz?, Poland (presently Zbaraz?h?, Ukraine). She describes life in a wealthy, politically aware family; attending secular school; attending law school at the University of Krako?w; marriage to another attorney; and life as a successful professional couple in the Warsaw area. She relates her journey from Warsaw to Zbaraz? at the outbreak of the war during which her daughter was born in a farmer's house; living in Zbaraz? under the Russian occupation; her feeling they should leave Poland prior to the German invasion; her refusal to register herself and her child with the Germans; the first Aktion in Zbaraz? when her husband was taken and shot outside of town; being beaten by the Germans; her attempts to save herself, her child, and her mother; her mother's refusal to hide and eventual deportation; evading round-ups several times; hiding herself and her daughter with the aid of a Polish woman in a small town near Zolochiv, where she saw Jewish slave laborers working in coal mines; teaching her daughter that she was a Catholic and suppressing any knowledge of Yiddish so the child would not inadvertently give them away; being helped by nuns in a nearby convent; hiding in other places when she had to leave that town; liberation by the Russians; her second marriage; and emigration to Israel. Mrs. R. details many incidents of life in the ghetto and in hiding.

5 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)