Julia P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Julia P., who was born in Kon?skowola, Poland in 1908. She recalls the impoverished shtetl; her mother's death; her father's remarriage; the family's move to Warsaw; factory work at age fourteen; and moving to Belgium in 1934 because she saw no future in Poland. She relates marriage to a Belgian; attending photography and journalism school; receiving a Leica camera with which she took all her pictures and still uses; German invasion; fleeing to France; work in an airplane factory in Marseille; being treated as a German spy several times because she was taking pictures; and joining the Resistance. Mrs. P. describes feeling that "Jews would not survive" despite the disbelief of many; organizing, with help from the Church, the rescue of hundreds of Jewish children; work as a Resistance courier; her younger sister's two year incarceration by the Gestapo; her sister's execution by guillotine on August 24, 1944 with two other Resistants; the uprising in Marseille and the surrender of the Germans on May 8, 1945, which she photographed; return to Poland; work as a photographer; and discovery of her wartime photographs in 1979 resulting in many exhibits and a book.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)