Ada F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ada F., who was born in Opalin, Poland (now Ukraine), in 1919. Mrs. F. describes her happy childhood in a rabbi's family; holiday observances; her family's disbelief about German antisemitic persecution in the late 1930s; the German invasion; separation from her family while on a train which was bombed en route to Che?m; and escaping with a girlfriend from the Che?m ghetto. She recalls hiding with other Jews in forest bunkers; betrayal by Poles; transport to a labor camp in ?o?dz?; witnessing atrocities; transfer to Auschwitz in November 1944; and liberation. She remembers arrest and interrogation as a "spy" when she tried to return to Opalin; six months' exile in Siberia; her marriage in Slonim; the birth of her daughter in a displaced persons camp near Ulm; unsuccessful efforts to go to Palestine; arrival in the United States; and the murder of her husband during a 1973 robbery. She reflects on her experiences with antisemitism in America, particularly a college professor whom she believed sympathetic to Hitler and a close friend who made antisemitic remarks.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)