Shirley D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Shirley D., who was born in Radzivilov, Poland (now Chervonoarmeisk, Ukraine) in 1914. She recalls her family's comfortable life; Soviet occupation; transports of many Jews into the Soviet Union; German occupation; ghettoization; forced labor; a round-up of the children and elderly, during which Mrs. D. witnessed a child's murder that still haunts her; and hiding with her husband, son, family members, and other Jews in several places until liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944. Mrs. D. tells of their return to Radzivilov; moving to Dubno; fleeing to Germany; living in the Neufreimann displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States. She discusses her guardianship of two Jewish orphans after the war (she is still in touch with them); her gratitude to the non-Jews who hid them; a reunion in 1988 in Ukraine with the women who hid them; and finding her parents' graves and relocating them to a Jewish cemetery.

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