Esther J. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Esther J., who was born in Wielun?, Poland in 1918. Mrs. J. recalls her close family of nine children; their religious observances; antisemitism after 1933; her engagement; her father's death immediately before the war; her fiance serving in the Polish army; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with her family to join her fiance in the Soviet zone; and returning home to find their estate looted by Poles. She describes her family being fingerprinted by the Gestapo; leaving for ?o?dz? with her fiance and mother; marriage; fleeing to Kovel? in the Soviet zone; transport to Siberia with other family members; conditions of severe physical deprivation; her son's birth in September 1940; living in several places, including Kazakhstan; her daughter's birth in 1946; having no knowledge of events in Europe during this time; and continuing observance of Jewish holidays. Mrs. J. tells of being allowed to return to Poland in April 1946; learning that most of their families had perished and of her brother's murder by Poles when he returned to their estate after the war; fleeing to the western zone with the help of Berih?ah; staying in displaced persons camps; and emigration to the United States in 1951.

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