Dora R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Dora R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. She recalls her marriage, her son's birth; ghettoization; their former non-Jewish maid bringing them food; transfer to the Tarno?w ghetto; her husband being taken in a round-up (she never saw him again); her son's violent murder in front of her; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a brief encounter with her sister (she never saw her again); transfer to Bomlitz; forced labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops near Potsdam; traveling to Krako?w; meeting her future husband and his daughter (they had been hidden by Poles); living in Linz and Munich; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. Ms. R. discusses continuing fears resulting from her experiences; psychiatric care after arrival in the U.S.; sharing her story with her son; and discussing her hiding experience with her adopted daughter.

2 videocassettes