Zofia D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Zofia D., who was born in Brzeziny, Poland, in 1923. Mrs. D. recalls her extended family; living with her aunt and uncle when her family moved to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki; receiving anti-Semitic threats as the only Jew in school in Koluszki; a volksdeutsche girlfriend who later joined the Gestapo; German occupation; angering police by trying to conceal her yellow star; buying her uncle out of a Gestapo jail; and joining her parents in Tomaszo?w. She relates ghetto conditions; execution of the Judenrat head and his sons (one of whom was her boyfriend); escape with her aunt and uncle (her brothers and parents remained); living on the Aryan side in Warsaw; the 1944 uprising; separation from her relatives in Wola; deportation from Pruszko?w for forced labor; serving as a domestic on an estate in Namslau; liberation; and being raped by a Soviet soldier. She describes return to Koluszki; reunion with her aunt and uncle; living in ?o?dz?; emigration in 1946 to Sweden, then to Canada in 1948 to marry; lingering psychological effects of her experience; and her sense of loss at her husband's death.

3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)