Denise W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Denise W., who was born in Paris. She recalls her parents were both from Poland; being sent to boarding school in Les Sables-d'Olonne after the outbreak of war; returning to Paris; her father's deportation; fleeing with her mother, grandmother, and brother to Nice; living in Aix-les-Bains; hiding in the mountains during a round-up; returning to Aix-les-Bains; arrest with her family; incarceration in Drancy; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her mother; being protected by the Czech head of her block; her mother's last visit; sorting clothes and luggage near the gas chambers; frequent illnesses; assistance from a French nurse; the death march to Ravensbru?ck; transfer to Malchow; evacuation; disappearance of the guards; traveling with the Soviet troops; returning to France; finding the French nurse who had helped her in camp; reunion with her father; learning her mother, grandmother, and brother had perished; and resuming school. Mrs. W. discusses reluctance to share her war experiences with her children and grandchildren; postwar depressions; and attribution of her survival to the hope of seeing her mother again.

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