Anna S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Anna S., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1930. She recounts living in Bielsk; not knowing she was Jewish until German invasion; her father's draft into the Soviet army; traveling with her mother to Minsk; fires and chaos; their journey to relatives in Dorogobuzhskii?; a brief visit from her father; traveling to Gorky (Nizhnii? Novgorod) as the Germans advanced, then to Astrakhan?; living with a non-Jewish family for one year; German bombings; fleeing to Tashkent; assistance from the Bukharan Jewish community; living in Kattaqurghon; returning to Minsk in 1944; wide-scale destruction; her mother learning that all their relatives were killed; reunion with her father in August 1945; moving to Ju?rmala, then Ri?ga; anti-Russian sentiment from Latvians; not telling her son he was Jewish until he experienced antisemitic incidents in school; deciding to emigrate; moving to Vienna with her husband, then to the United States; and her son joining them after seven years as a "refusenik." Mrs. S. discusses her father's experiences and learning of the Holocaust after the war.

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