Belle S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Belle S., who was born in Szyd?owiec, Poland in approximately 1924, one of four children. She recounts her family's poverty; attending school; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; her father's death from typhus in 1942; her older brother's deportation; hiding; deportation with her brother and his girlfriend to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; her brother hiding her and providing food for her when she was sick; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer with her brother and his girlfriend in 1944 to Cze?stochowa; hospitalization for one month; the doctor giving her extra food; abandonment by the Germans; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; returning home; reunion with her other brother; traveling to ?o?dz?; marriage; the birth of her son in May 1946; living in several displaced persons camps; her brother's emigration to Canada in 1947; emigration to the United States in 1949; assistance from the Jewish Federation; illness resulting from the camps; her daughter's birth in 1953; divorce in 1966; and not sharing her experiences with her children in order to protect them from her pain.

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