Sonia H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sonia H., who was born in Oleye?vo-Korole?vka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1933. She remembers cordial relations with non-Jews; Soviet occupation; her father hiding to avoid deportation to Siberia; Hungarian, then German invasion in 1941; hiding in bunkers in her grandmother's house; her paternal grandparents being caught in a round-up; moving to Bi?lche to hide in a grotto; her mother and sister being caught; their release after her father bribed officials; hiding in her father's friend's barn, a forest, then another grotto beginning in May 1943; local peasants providing them with food; liberation by Soviet troops in April 1944; their return home; moving to Borshchov after two aunts were murdered; her father's draft into the Soviet military (they never saw him again); her grandfather's killing by peasants; she and an aunt traveling to Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp with assistance from the Red Cross; living in an orphanage; being joined by her mother and sister; her emigration to the United States in 1947 with assistance from the Joint (her mother and sister came three years later); marriage; and the births of three children. Mrs. H. shows photographs.

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