Miriam H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Miriam H., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1912. She recalls her marriage in 1938; her daughter's birth; German invasion; ghettoization; a round-up in which her parents, daughter, and niece were taken (she never saw them again); incarceration with her husband and sister in P?aszo?w; deportation with her sister to Auschwitz; their transfer to Theresienstadt about a year later; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Prague; reunion with her husband in Krako?w; living in Germany for four years; the birth of a child; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. H. discusses pointless slave labor in the camps; her husband's illnesses resulting from the camp experience; not sharing her story with her children, unless they ask, for fear of disturbing them; reluctance to meet with other survivors because she does not want to talk or hear about the camps; and pervasive bad memories. She shows pictures and notes her sorrow that she does not even have a photograph of her murdered daughter.

2 videocassettes