Pearl K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Pearl K., who was born in Zwierzyniec, Poland in 1922 to a family of eight children. She recounts moving to Warsaw around 1925; their poverty; attending Jewish labor movement schools; the deaths of her mother, sister, and sister's child in the German bombardment; ghettoization; starvation, lice, lack of sanitation, and frequent deaths; working outside of Warsaw in a sanatorium for Jewish children; support from the Bund; obtaining false papers; hiding when the sanitorium was liquidated; returning to Warsaw with assistance from a Pole; acting as a courier for the underground; contact with Poles and Jews in hiding including her brother; traveling to a village after the 1944 Warsaw uprising; working as a domestic; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Warsaw; reunion with her brother; living in Lublin, then ?odz?; antisemitic incidents; living in Sweden, Poland, and Germany; and emigrating to the United States. Mrs. K. discusses her fears and pessimism resulting from her experiences.

4 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)