Rose S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Minsk, Byelorussia, in 1921. She tells of her family's move to Kon?skie, Poland; the outbreak of war in 1939 while she was nearby in Przedbo?rz; fleeing with her boyfriend to Ostro?w Lubelski in the Soviet zone; his return; and her marriage to a local artist/musician. Mrs. S. recalls the German invasion; ghettoization; her husband's murder in an Aktion; working as a housekeeper for German soldiers; hiding during a round-up in which her in-laws were taken; being forewarned of Aktions by a German soldier; and escaping with false papers to Zdolbuniv to find Fritz Graebe. She recounts being sent by Graebe to work in Rovno in 1942; concealing her identity during a Gestapo interrogation; obtaining a job through her boss as a "Polish" housekeeper for a banker in Berlin; forced labor in Kremmen after a 1943 decree forbade employing foreign servants; and liberation by American troops. She describes an NKVD interrogation as a suspected collaborator; returning to Poland; her active participation in Aliyah Bet; arrival in Palestine in 1948; and working in a hospital during the 1948 war.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)