Helen R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Helen R., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1923. She recounts her father's death when she was ten months old; antisemitic harassment by teachers and students in school; her mother's remarriage; moving to Sosnowiec; the births of two half-siblings; German invasion; ghettoization in Srodula; pervasive hunger; deportation with her sister to Guentherbruecke; forced labor in a munitions factory; she and her sister helping each other; receiving extra food from her cousin; transfer to Peterswaldau; liberation by Soviet troops; their return to Sosnowiec; learning her immediate family had been killed; her sister's emigration to Israel; marriage to a survivor; moving to Munich; her daughter's birth; and emigrating to the United States with help from HIAS. Mrs. R. tells of frequently discussing her experiences with her husband; her daughter's resulting depression; deriving strength from discussions of their futures while in camps; and her husband's death.

2 videocassettes