Alice B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Alice B., who was born in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia in 1924. She describes cordial relations with non-Jews; anti-Jewish laws beginning in 1939; her parents hiding her with an aunt to prevent her deportation in 1942; her parents' and sister's deportation; hiding in sheds and with a non-Jewish relative; her aunt paying a smuggler to bring her and her grandmother to Hungary in 1943; betrayal by the smuggler; escaping; returning to her aunt; traveling to Zemianske Sady in 1944; working in tobacco fields; her uncle paying a man to hide them in Hlohovec; betrayal when their money ran out; transport to Sered in September 1944, then Auschwitz; remaining with her cousin (she never saw the other family again); disbelief when told of gas chambers and crematoria; transfer with her cousin to Bad Kudowa; slave labor in an aircraft factory, then on railroad tracks; evacuation to Na?chod; liberation by Soviet troops; kind treatment by Czechs; returning home; antisemitic remarks from Slovaks; living in Z?ilina; marriage to a Jewish partisan; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. B. discusses regrets for not taking revenge on SS after liberation; recurring nightmares; and her daughter's problems resulting from her experiences. She shows photographs.

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