Esther T. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Esther T., who was born in Thessaloni?ke, Greece in 1914. She recalls her father's death in 1933; working as a seamstress; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; smuggling food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in March 1943; separation from her mother and aunt; interpreting for Greek inmates; removing empty Zyklon B cans from the gas chamber area; observing selections by Dr. Josef Mengele; feigning recovery from typhus to leave the hospital; her sister's death in the hospital; her younger brother's privileged job which led to extra food and favors from a German; receiving food and messages from her brother; kindness from a SS woman; intervening with an official to improve conditions for some Greek inmates; a kapo beating her for helping new arrivals escape selection; efforts to remain near her brother; and being wounded in an Allied bombing in September 1944. Mrs. T. recounts the death march in January 1945; transport to a labor camp; sharing extra food she obtained working in the kitchen work; evacuation in April; witnessing United States and Soviet troops meet near Leipzig; liberation; and traveling to France.

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