Fay S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Fay S., who was born in Zwolen?, Poland in 1919, the oldest of five children. She recalls her family's affluence; antisemitic violence; marriage in 1937; moving to Radom; her son's birth; German invasion; moving to Zwolen? to avoid bombings; staying with a non-Jewish farmer; returning to Radom; ghettoization; living outside the ghetto due to her husband's job; rumors that children and women were to be relocated; paying a non-Jew to take her son; visiting him frequently; slave labor in a munitions factory; learning her mother had brought her son to Zwolen? (she never saw them again); selection for deportation; sneaking into another group; mass killing of women and babies from the hospital; having to bury the babies; hiding during deportation selections and the shooting of every tenth person (her cousin was shot); escaping a deportation; working with her husband; their deportation to Auschwitz; a guard hitting her on the head; friends assisting her; transfer the next day to Lippstadt; friends assisting her (she could not walk or work due to the head injury); Polish nurses in the camp hospital assisting her; a German supervisor and Italian POWs providing extra food, which helped her recover; evacuation; liberation by United States troops; living in Lippstadt; leaning her husband was in Dachau; reunion with him there; and moving to Stuttgart. Ms. S. notes two brothers survived the war.

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