Ida L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ida L., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. She recalls antisemitic incidents during her childhood; activities in a Zionist youth group; harsh conditions in the Krako?w ghetto; smuggling food to share with her sister; one sister's deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to P?aszo?w when the ghetto was liquidated in 1943; working in the laundry; random killings by camp commander Amon Goeth; a Jewish doctor being severely beaten and displayed in a wheel barrow as an example of punishment for helping others; declining to escape with help from a Polish friend fearing retribution against the other prisoners; her brother's deportation to Auschwitz (she never saw him again); transfer to Auschwitz; the death march to Bergen-Belsen; the importance of helping each other; liberation by British troops; and recuperating in a German hospital under British supervision. Mrs. L. describes learning she had no family left; her marriage in Sweden; and emigration ten years later to the United States.

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