Eugenia D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eugenia D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls her affluent family life; her oldest brother withdrawing from medical school due to antisemitism; German invasion; ghettoization; severe hunger; food smuggling; deportations; building and hiding in bunkers; the ghetto uprising; and deportation to Majdanek. Mrs. D. recounts forced labor; tranport to Auschwitz three months later with her mother, aunts, and cousins; successful efforts to remain with her mother; a severe beating for refusing to enter a truck that she knew would take them to execution; working with women from the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager), who helped her; its dissolution in one night; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, another camp, then Malchow; escaping from a death march with her mother; and liberation by Soviets. She notes her extreme poverty when she arrived in Argentina and details the sadism of concentration camp guards.

3 videocassettes