Lola S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lola S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1923. She recalls her childhood in a Jewish neighborhood; her father's prewar death; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; her sisters' deportations (one of whom she never saw again); her older brothers' deportations (she never saw them again); her mother's death; forced labor and starvation; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; reunion with her sister who had learned of the ?o?dz? ghetto transport from an SS woman who frequently helped her; receiving extra food from her sister; transfer with her sister to Bergen-Belsen; starvation, appells, and selections; assignment to kitchen work due to the intervention of her sister's friend; her sister's assistance after a severe beating by a blockaltester (she still suffers effects); and liberation by British troops. Mrs. S. describes living with her sister in a nearby town; her sister's marriage; their move to Waging am See; her marriage; moving again; her son's birth; locating her husband's relatives in the United States; and emigration to the United States. She discusses the importance of her sister to her survival and shows photographs of her children and their families.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)