Barbara G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Barbara G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. She describes her happy childhood; attending a private Jewish school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; her brother fleeing to Soviet territory; traveling to Cze?stochowa via Warsaw in December 1939; ghettoization; learning from her mother's letter about her grandparents' deaths from starvation in the ?o?dz? ghetto; losing contact with her parents in May 1942; deportations from the Cze?stochowa ghetto; her marriage; forced labor in a factory; public executions; the small ghetto's liquidation; transfer with her husband to a camp; her husband sharing soup with her and arranging for her to work at a factory lab; having an abortion in June 1944; her husband obtaining medicine for her from members of the Polish underground in exchange for bullets from the factory; hiding with her husband during the camp's evacuation on January 15, 1945; and liberation by Soviet troops on January 17, 1945. Mrs. G. recounts returning to ?o?dz?; reunion with her brother; living with her husband in Landsberg displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1949. She discusses sharing her Holocaust experiences with her children.

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