Geiselle M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Geiselle M., who was born in Z?ilina, Czechoslovakia in 1912. She describes her affluent family; Jewish life; her education; her mother's death in 1938; marriage in 1939; moving to Trenc?i?n; and the German takeover. She details her husband's importance to the Germans since he was a plumber; her pregnancy; arrangements through a priest, with whom her husband had attended school, to have the child registered Catholic at birth; aid received from friends and employees; entrusting her son to a former employee; deportation to Auschwitz, via Sered,? with her father, stepmother and brother; the horrendous conditions of the transport; arrival and separation from her family; learning of her sister's death in Auschwitz; transfer to Bad Kudowa Zdo?j with her friends from Z?ilina; forced labor in a factory; liberation in May 1945; returning home; and reunion with her son and husband. She discusses the pain of seeing her son call another woman "mother"; the miracle of their family survival; her dreams and religious beliefs after the war; her son's reluctance to discuss the topic; his closeness to Mrs. M. and her husband; and her pleasure in her grandchildren.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)