Genia L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Genia L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1927. She recalls her observant, affluent home; a close, extended family; German invasion; being shunned by German friends; Polish neighbors looting their home; confiscation of her father's business; moving to the ghetto; her brother traveling to Warsaw (she never saw him again); forced labor producing clothing for the Wehrmacht; her family's exemption from deportation due to the privileged position of her sister's boyfriend; her mother's illness and death in 1944; her father being tortured by police seeking valuables; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her father (she never saw him again); transfer with her sister to Freiberg; forced labor in an airplane factory; vicious female SS guards; their transfer to Mauthausen; receiving Red Cross packages from male prisoners; liberation by United States troops; recovering in an American hospital in Linz; meeting her husband; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. Mrs. L. discusses German civilians who observed prisoners walking from camp to the factory yet claimed ignorance; continuing friendship with survivors which serves as therapy for her; and telling her children of her experiences. She shows photographs.

3 videocassettes