Isabella L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Isabella L., who was born in Kisva?rda, Hungary, in 1924. Mrs. L. vividly recalls ubiquitous antisemitism during her childhood; her father's attempts to secure visas for them while in the United States organizing an exhibition for the 1939 World's Fair; their difficult situation during the early years of the war; German occupation; ghettoization of Kisva?rda; deportation in cattle cars with her family to Auschwitz in May 1944; selection by Mengele; the killing of her mother and youngest sister; and receiving messages from her brother scrawled on scraps of wood. She tells of the pervasive stench of burning flesh; the close bonds among the four surviving sisters; their selection for death; a last minute change resulting in their transport to Birnba?umel in November 1944; digging tank traps in the forest; escaping with two of her sisters during a death march through Jagdschu?tz (today Jachcice) in January 1945; and liberation by Soviet troops. She relates their journey to Odessa; arrival in New York in May 1945; reunion with her brother; and learning of the torture and death of her other sister at Bergen-Belsen.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)