Helen N. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Helen N., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her father was a jeweler; attending public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; deportation to the ?o?dz? ghetto; forced labor; being saved from deportation by a cousin who was a policeman; hiding her brother due to his frailty; their deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; transfer with her sister to Hamburg three days later (she never saw the rest of her family again); forced labor clearing bombing rubble; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; recovering for several months; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; marriage; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mrs. N. discusses the trauma of separation from her mother in Auschwitz and maintaining hope through hate for Hitler and wishes for his death. She reads a poem she wrote.

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