Dora Z. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Dora Z., who was born in P?on?sk, Poland in 1921. She recalls chaos as the war began; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; frequent atrocities; seeing her parents for the last time when they were evacuated from the ghetto; and deportation with her three sisters to Auschwitz in 1942. Mrs. Z. describes the arrival routine including shaving and tattooing; meaningless forced labor; supporting each other during selections; the deaths of her sisters; friendships with other prisoners; new arrivals being herded to the gas chambers; the pervasive stench and smoke from the crematoria; a revolt and execution of the participants; the death march to Ravensbru?ck, then Neustadt/Glewe; and liberation. She recounts returning to P?on?sk; reunion with friends, including her future husband; leaving Poland; and living in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and Zeilsheim, where she married. Mrs. Z. vividly details numerous atrocities in the ghetto and concentration camps.

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