Sara K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sara K., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1928, the older of two children. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father's several businesses; moving to Warsaw in 1937 where her parents thought she and her brother would receive better educations; German invasion; she and her brother walking with her father to protect him from forced labor; ghettoization; being sent with her brother to live with an aunt in the Piaski Luterski ghetto, where it was easier to obtain food; returning to the Warsaw ghetto a year later after being warned of a round-up (her aunt and family did not survive); hiding in the factory where their parents worked; the German supervisor obtaining false papers for them; escaping in March 1943 after the supervisor warned them; staying with one of her father's former employees; denouncement a few weeks later; escaping; hiding with her mother with non-Jews; her father and brother joining them; escaping in January 1945 when Germans requisitioned the house; hiding in a forest; aid from local Poles; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Warsaw; finding everything destroyed; traveling to Lublin, with assistance from a Soviet Jewish officer; smuggling themselves to Germany from Szczecin a year later; living in displaced persons camps in Berlin and Stuttgart; distant relatives from France sponsoring their emigration to Paris; marriage to an Auschwitz survivor in spring 1948; and trying to build a "normal" family. Ms. K. notes her husband's difficulties as the sole survivor of his family, and not sharing their experiences with their children and grandchildren, yet knowing they have impacted them.

2 videocassettes