Lillian R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lillian R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922, one of four sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; her mother's grandfather, a prominent rabbi in Warsaw; attending private Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; forced relocation with her family to De?bica in December; moving to Radom; ghettoization; her mother's deportation (she did not survive); transition of the ghetto into a camp; deportation with her father to Szyd?owiec; their return to Radom, due to her sister's influence with a German official; marriage in 1943; hiding during a round-up; slave labor in a munitions factory; deportation to Majdanek, then P?aszo?w; slave labor with her sister in a brick factory; buying food from Polish civilian workers for her father and husband; transfer to Wieliczka, then back to P?aszo?w; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz/Birkenau; reunion with another sister; hospitalization; a prisoner-physician warning her of a selection; the departure of her two younger sisters in November 1944; the same physician saving her again; working as a dressmaker; a public hanging; a death march and train transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then Neustadt-Glewe; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to ?o?dz? with her sister; reunion with her husband and a paternal aunt; traveling illegally to join her other sisters in Stuttgart; the death of her oldest sister; working for UNRRA; and emigration to the United States in March 1949. Ms. R. discusses her continuing faith, even in the camps; attributing her survival to her sisters and others who helped her; and not sharing her experiences with her children until they were older, wanting them to have a "normal" childhood. She shows photographs.

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