Edith B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Edith B., who was born in Kon?us?, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She remembers Hungarian occupation; deportation to Ungvar, then Auschwitz in May 1944; separation from her family (she later learned her brother and father were alive in the male barracks); transfer to Frankfurt; forced labor; taunting of the prisoners because of their Yom Kippur prayers; starvation; a beating for smuggling food; a German guard allowing her to rest during work until she recovered her strength; transfer to Ravensbru?ck in December 1944; working at a Siemens factory; being saved from death by non-Jewish hospital staff; liberation by Soviet troops from a death march near Berlin; moving to the American zone; staying at a displaced persons camp; traveling to Prague; reunion with her brother; returning to Kon?us?; learning no other family had survived; marriage; emigration to Canada, then the United States; her son's birth; the death of her husband; remarriage; and her second son's birth. Mrs. B. discusses recurring nightmares; her children restoring her belief in God; sharing her experiences with them; and her brother's reluctance to share his experiences. She shows her father's photograph, which was saved by a non-Jewish neighbor.

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