Clara P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Clara P., who was born in Li?u?boml?, Ukraine in 1916, one of six children. She recalls her father's death when she was seven; her family's extreme poverty; working from age fourteen onward; marrying in 1938; her son's birth in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; round-ups and mass murders; ghettoization; a non-Jewish acquaintance bringing them food; hiding during a 1942 aktion when her mother was killed and her son taken; and escaping into the forest with her husband and others. Mrs. P. recounts many experiences from two years of hiding, emphasizing the difficult conditions; attacks by Ukrainians who killed four in their group; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; returning home with her husband; working for the Soviets; moving to Che?m; escaping to Germany in 1946 after a pogrom in Poland; living in the Wetzlar displaced persons camp; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. She discusses her husband's death; remarriage to a Sobibo?r survivor; her son's reluctance to hear about the war years; and her nightmares and depression. Throughout the testimony Mrs. P. emphasizes the extreme deprivation and hardship she endured and her own disbelief that she survived these conditions.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)