Selene B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Selene B., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland. She recalls German occupation; mass killings; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; hiding with her family during round-ups; her brother's work as a photographer's assistant (he brought home pictures of the ghetto); her brother arranging for her and her mother to work at a furniture factory; hiding with her mother after the ghetto's liquidation; their arrest and deportation to Stutthof, then Birkenau; working with her mother in a bomb factory; attempting to sabotage the bomb fuses; a public hanging; transfer to Auschwitz; finding her aunt; the death march to Ravensbru?ck; transfer with her mother and aunt to Neustadt; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. B. describes working for the Soviet army; traveling with her mother to ?o?dz?; returning to Bia?ystok; hearing from her father in the United States; learning her brother had survived; meeting her future husband on a train to Germany; joining her father in the United States; and attending high school. She recalls her nightmares after a trip with her husband to Bia?ystok, ?o?dz?, Birkenau and Auschwitz, and returning to Poland with her children so they could see it through her eyes.

2 videocassettes