Felicia H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Felicia H., who was born in Che?m, Poland about 1920. She recalls Polish restrictions on Jews; her parents' decision and attempts to emigrate; moving to Warsaw in 1938; her father's departure for Bolivia in April 1939; German bombing of Warsaw on September 1; returning to Che?m with her mother; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat, for which she worked; and transports of Jews to Sobibor and Majdanek. Mrs. H. describes hiding during the final liquidation; separation from her mother; traveling to Zakopane, then Krako?w; obtaining false papers using the name of a Polish woman from Che?m; working for an S.S. officer whose wife knew she was Jewish; discovery and having to return to the Krako?w ghetto; and deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau. She details life in Birkenau; the importance of helping each other and a sense of humor; her mother's words that "it would all be over someday" to which she attributes her survival; transport to Ober Alstadt; and liberation. She remembers returning to Che?m via Ostrava; animosity of the people in Che?m; learning of her mother's death; contact with her father in New York; living in Stockholm; and emigration to the United States.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)