Dasha R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Dasha R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1929, one of six children. She recalls her father was a Gerer Hasid; antisemitic violence; close relations with her brothers' children; German invasion; being sent to relatives in a small town; the town burning; fleeing to her brothers' home in Wodzis?aw; returning home after a few weeks; learning her cousin perished when the Germans burned the synagogue; a public hanging; caring for her brothers' children; hiding the children during round-ups; her parents escaping from a round-up; being taken to Sosnowiec; crying constantly for her parents and brothers' children; deportation to Blechhammer; trying to hang herself; being saved by a woman to whom she remained close until her death four years ago; transfer to Schatzlar, Bernsdorf, and return to Schatzlar; injuries from which she still bears scars; a Czech worker bringing her food; liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; the Soviets allowing them to demean the SS women; returning home; reunion with one sister (no one else survived); living in displaced persons camps; and emigrating to Palestine via Austria and Italy, then to the United States in 1950. Mrs. R. shows photographs and reads a poem she wrote in camp in March 1944.

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