Elise S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Elise S., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1906. She recalls German invasion; fleeing with her non-Jewish husband and daughter from C?esky?n Krumlov to Bechyne? where her parents lived; fleeing with her family to C?eske? Bude?jovice; her parents' and brothers' deportations to Terezi?n in 1942; sending packages to them in Zamos?c?; learning from her brother's letter that her parents disappeared (she never saw them again); her husband's draft in August 1944; sending her daughter to an orphanage when she was arrested; deportation from a prison in Prague to Terezi?n; transfer to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen; roll-calls and beatings (she lost vision in one eye after a beating); transfer to Dessau; forced labor at an airplane factory in Raguhn from February until April 1945; the disappearance of guards from a cattle train; and liberation from Terezi?n. Mrs. S. describes reunion with her husband and emigration with her daughter and husband to the United States in 1949.

3 videocassettes