Esther K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in 1935 in Split, Yugoslavia. She describes the Jewish community; Italian occupation including parades and expulsion of Jews from public schools; an influx of refugees; a book burning and destruction of the synagogue in June 1942; denial of official responsibility by the Italian government; and rebuilding of the synagogue. Mrs. K. recounts Nazi occupation; her father, brother and oldest sister joining the partisans; being warned of a Nazi round-up by a non-Jewish friend; hiding with her mother and another sister in a mountain village for several months; joining a partisan-led refugee group for six months; traveling to the island of Vis under German fire; and being taken to Bari, Italy on a British boat. She recounts an uncle finding them; locating her father and brother; learning her oldest sister was alive in Yugoslavia; emigration with her parents, brother and sister to the United States in 1944; life in the Fort Ontario Refugee Shelter where she met Eleanor Roosevelt; postwar adjustment difficulties; marriage to a survivor; and attempts to bring her oldest sister to the United States.

2 videocassettes