Sulia R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sulia R., who was born in Nowogro?dek, Poland in 1924. She describes her affluent family; their move to Vilna when she was four years old; returning to Nowogro?dek; her father's Zionist beliefs; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization and public executions; forced labor cleaning rubble and digging ditches; obtaining an easier job with assistance from a German official; escaping mass killings with her family in 1942; housing "visitors from the forest" to make contact with the partisans; beatings and interrogations after an escape attempt; escaping execution with assistance from a German officer; fleeing from the Nowogro?dek camp in October 1942; joining the partisans; marriage on April 18, 1943; the conditions and relationships within the partisan group in the forest; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; her husband's refusal to join the army; fleeing with her husband to ?o?dz?, then Berlin; and emigration to the United States in 1947. Mrs. R. discusses her lectures about the Holocaust in schools and her book about the war experience. She shows family photographs.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)