Cypora G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Cypora G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, one of seven children. She recalls her family's extreme poverty; her mother's efforts to feed them; attending a Bund school; working from age ten to help support her family; her mother's death; studying theater on a scholarship; meeting her future husband; performing in many locations with a theater group; the emigration of three sisters; German invasion; her future husband having her smuggled to Bia?ystok; working in Yiddish theater; moving to Vilnius; traveling to Tashkent; living in Farghona; marriage; returning to Warsaw in 1946; disbelief at the total destruction; locating her husband's three year old nephew in Slonim (his parents were killed and he was hidden by a non-Jew) and adopting him; fleeing after the Kielce progrom and antisemitic violence against her son; living in Stockholm; and emigration to the United States in 1948. Mrs. G. notes her focus on raising her son; seldom working in Yiddish theater again; and no interest in returning to Poland or Warsaw, "a new place built on the blood and flesh of my relatives." She shows photographs and documents.

4 videocassettes