Tusia H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimonies of Tusia H., whose family had deep roots in Be?dzin, Poland. She recalls active participation in a Zionist group; one brother's emigration to Israel; her father's deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 (she never saw him again); marriage; ghettoization in 1943; working in the hospital and pharmacy; a brother's resistance activities; his escape to Slovakia; following him with her mother, but not her husband, who was to have come later; assisting Jews escape to Slovakia; traveling to Budapest as non-Jews on false papers; contacts with Joel Brand and Rudolf Kasztner; organizing in Moha?cs; abandoning the operation after some arrests; posing as a Polish Red Cross worker and visiting jailed partisans in Pe?cs, including her brother who had been sentenced to death; the prisoners' liberation by Soviet troops (she had returned to Budapest seeking her husband); liberation; finding her husband (he was already working for United States forces); living with relatives in Belgium; and emigration to Israel in 1951. Ms. H. discusses their resistance activities as revenge for their father's deportation; the importance of luck; and difficulties escaping from Poland and continuing to operate as a group.

4 videocassettes