Irene S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born near Warsaw, Poland in 1921. She recounts her father's difficulty earning a living as a physician in ?o?dz? due to antisemitism; attending music conservatory in ?o?dz?, then in Warsaw in 1938; antisemitic incidents; unsuccessfully attempting to emigrate to Palestine; her father's draft into the Polish army; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw; hiding using false papers; joining her mother in the Warsaw ghetto to avoid exposure; moving to the Piotrko?w Trybunalski ghetto with her mother with help from a Polish friend; avoiding separation from her mother with assistance from a German officer; working at an ammunition factory; transfer with her mother to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; receiving her father's letters from a POW camp; obtaining kitchen work for her mother with assistance from a commander; their deportation to Buchenwald; working in a HASAG factory in Leipzig; the German guards' disappearance during a death march; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. S. recalls traveling with her mother to ?o?dz?; antisemitic incidents; reunion with her father in Warburg; music lessons in Wiesbaden; marriage in Paris; and emigration to the United States in 1948. She shows family photographs and emphasizes the importance of help received from many people.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)