Janet R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Janet R., who was born in Ostrog, Poland (presently Ostroh, Ukraine) in 1928, the youngest of five children. She recalls a comfortable childhood; Soviet occupation; her father moving to L'vov, fearing deportation to Siberia; German invasion; joining her parents in L'vov; German arrest of her father and brother; their execution; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother and nephew disappearing (she never saw them again); obtaining false papers from a family friend; escaping with her sister and sister-in-law; deciding to separate, fearing more risk together; posing as a Christian; brief reunion with her sister; working for two years on an Austrian general's farm; constant fear of exposure; the general's departure; staying with another worker; arrival of Soviet troops; living in L'vov with her father's friend, who urged her to convert to Christianity; continuing to pose as a Christian; studying medicine; reunion with a cousin in Ostrog; moving to Warsaw; meeting her future husband; traveling to Frankfurt; reunion with her sister-in-law and sister; moving to Paris; emigrating to the United States via Montre?al; marriage; her husband's premature death; and remarriage. Mrs. R. reflects on the enormous psychological strain while hiding. She shows photographs.

4 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)