Terry D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Terry D., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1925. She recounts her father's death; her mother's remarriage; moving to Brzostek; antisemitic violence and discrimination; German invasion; help from Germans, who mistook her family for non-Jews; anti-Jewish measures, including forced labor; her step-father's suicide after his arrest; disbelief when Austrian soldiers warned them all Jews would be killed; declining to be hidden by an Austrian soldier; escaping to a forest during a round-up in August 1941; being smuggled with her mother into the De?bica ghetto by a non-Jew; obtaining false papers; escaping with her friend Ruth and posing as Polish workers; transport to Krako?w, then Germany; forced labor at I. G. Farben; constant fear of being revealed as a Jew; discovering other Jews posing as Poles; liberation by United States troops; celebrating Passover with an American Jewish chaplain; working for the Red Cross in Heidelberg; a futile search for relatives; translating for a de-Nazification unit; identifying a Nazi she recognized from Brzostek; and emigrating to the United States in 1946 to join an uncle. Mrs. D. discusses her continuing, close relationship with Ruth, and her pervasive sense of loss. She shows photographs.

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