Mila B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mila B., who was born in 1927 in Chrzano?w, Poland, one of six children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her grandfather's death in 1936 resulting from antisemitic violence by Poles; German invasion; deportations of two brothers; forced factory labor; her mother's deportation, then one sister's, then her own in 1942; arrival at Sosnowiec; transfer to Neusalz; slave labor in a textile factory; singing songs with other prisoners; fasting on Yom Kippur; learning from a newly-arrived prisoner from Chrzano?w that her father, brother, and youngest sister had been deported; a death march in January 1945; Hitler Youth beating them en route through Potsdam; escaping for a day and a half with another girl; arrival in Flossenbu?rg; public hangings; train transport to Bergen-Belsen; corpses scattered everywhere; liberation by British troops; living in Lingen with a German family, then in Bergen; reunion with her brother; emigration to the United States in 1947; marriage to a survivor from Chrzano?w; and the births of three children. Ms. B. notes her brother was her only immediate family member to survive; her continuing belief in God; and sharing her experiences with her children. She shows photographs.

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