Evelyn E. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Evelyn E., who was born in Poland in 1934. She recounts staying with her grandparents in Ostro?w Mazowiecka in 1939; German invasion; their escape to Zare?by Kos?cielne; deportation to a village by Soviet authorities; her grandfather's brief imprisonment; moving to Tashkent several years later; her grandfather's death from starvation; moving to a kolkhoz; placement in an orphanage; running away to return to her grandmother; their return to Tashkent; placement in another orphanage; attending school; their repatriation to Poland in 1946; living in orphanages in Otwock and Sro?dboro?w; an uncle arriving to claim her; living in an orphanage in her uncle's town, then a Jewish orphanage in Bytom; moving to Paris with her uncle and grandmother; emigration to Montre?al in 1950, then the United States. Mrs. E. discusses choosing to live in orphanages due to common bonds with the children there; learning her parents and siblings had perished; sharing her experiences with her children; her son's and husband's deaths; and hoping others will not suffer as she has. She shows photographs.

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