Esther F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Esther F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1908. She recounts segregated seating for Jews at university in Krako?w; attending medical school in Paris in 1926 with one brother (he remained); returning to ?o?dz? in 1933; working as a physician; marriage in summer 1939; German invasion; her husband's draft into the Polish military (she never saw him again); ghettoization; living with her mother and another brother; working as a doctor; pervasive hunger, disease, and deaths; frequent round-ups and deportations; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her mother and brother (they perished); transfer to Guben to work as a physician; befriending a girl from ?o?dz?, whom she considered a daughter; misinforming the Germans about the health of prisoners in order to save lives; evacuation to Bergen-Belsen in February 1945; recovering from typhus; learning her "daughter" had died; liberation by British troops; recovering in Landskrona and northern Sweden; assistance from Swedish physicians in Stockholm; contact with her brother who survived in France; corresponding with her husband's friend in the United States who had lost his family in ?o?dz?; marriage to him during his visit; and joining him in the United States in 1947. She shows photographs.

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