Edith S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Edith S., who was born in Solotvyno, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of two daughters. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending Hebrew school; antisemitic harassment; her father's draft into the Czech military; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return in 1943; her parents' arrest; ghettoization; her parents' return (her father had been tortured); her parents' re-arrest; her mother's return; bringing her father food (she never saw him again); deportation with her mother and sister to Auschwitz; separation from them (she never saw them again); losing hope; an aunt finding her; moving to her barrack; her aunt forcing her to eat; transfer three weeks later to Frankfurt; slave labor constructing roads and airplane hangers; Allied bombings; a death march to Ravensbru?ck; transfer to another camp two weeks later; slave labor in a munitions factory; improved conditions; transfer to a knitting factory in Jablonec nad Jizerou; liberation; hospitalization in Prague; assistance from the Joint; returning to Solotvyno; and learning her immediate family had been killed. Ms. S. notes losing her belief in God during the war, but regaining it; marriage to a survivor; and the births of her three daughters.

3 videocassettes