June F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of June F., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. She recounts her comfortable childhood and loving family; joining her grandmother in the Warsaw ghetto in 1941; escaping with false papers to the Aryan side; assistance from a German in obtaining a job in the Tomaszo?w ghetto; transfer with her husband to Bliz?yn in 1943, three months after their marriage; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz; communicating with him until his deportation to another camp; selections and meaningless slave labor; public hanging of those who tried to escape; cleaning sewers as a punishment for escaping from a transport; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; liberation by British troops in April 1945; her inability to take revenge; fear that liberation was not true; reunion with her husband in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; obtaining an abortion (she did not want to have a child in Germany); emigration to the United States in October 1949; and a nervous breakdown when her daughter was nine months old. Mrs. F. discusses the importance of maintaining friendship, humor, and normal desires to her survival; learning not to hate; and a visit to Bergen-Belsen with her daughter.

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