Sara C. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sara C., who was born in Druysk, Russia in 1910. In two separate interviews Mrs. C. recalls her parents' deaths when she was a child; living with an aunt in Latvia; marriage at age nineteen; and her son's birth nine years later. She recounts arrival of the Germans; round-ups; ghettoization; her husband's disappearance in March 1943 (she later learned he was killed); hiding in the forests near Vilna with her son, then in a house with an old woman for one year, in a potato cellar and another place where they were infested with lice; her son dissuading her from surrendering themselves; and liberation by Soviet soldiers. Mrs. C. describes returning to her village; remarriage; living four and a half years in displaced persons camps in Germany; emigration to the United States; and the birth of her daughter in 1951.

3 videocassettes