Liza S. Holocaust testimonies

Videotape testimony of Liza S., who was born in Lut?s??k, Poland in 1925. She recalls ghettoization in 1941; her younger sister's murder; forced labor near Kremenet?s??; falling in love with another prisoner; being smuggled to visit her family in Lut?s??k; transfer with her boyfriend to the Kremenet?s?? ghetto; and feigning death when all the Jews were shot in a pit. Mrs. S. recounts climbing naked from the pit at night; discovering that her boyfriend had also survived; hiding for six months in the forest; receiving assistance from local people; her boyfriend's murder when he visited his family, hiding elsewhere; living for three months with one family; leaving when neighbors became suspicious; dreaming her father told her to pose as a deaf mute and then doing so; arrest by Soviet troops as a spy; escaping to Jews in a nearby village; and finding two Jewish children who had been living with Christian families. She recounts her marriage to a survivor; her son's birth; emigration to the United States; her second son's birth; and learning that her brother had survived through a list in the Forv?ert?s published the day of her son's Bar Mitzvah.

2 videocassettes