Celia D. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Celia D., who was born in P?ock, Poland. She recalls her affluent childhood; withdrawing from school due to antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with her brother to Ga?bin; returning home; ghettoization; receiving food from non-Jewish friends; forced labor; fleeing with her father and brother to Warsaw; her father's death from cancer; returning home with her brother in spring 1940; a round-up including two younger brothers; deportation with her mother and other siblings to Soldau-Dzia?dowo in winter 1941; transport to Stopnica ten days later; slave labor as an agricultural worker; her sister's death; her younger sister being shot in front of her by an SS guard; transfer with her boyfriend to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; witnessing a prisoner giving birth (the infant was killed to save the mother); slave labor in a munitions factory; assistance from a former neighbor who was influential in the camp; visits from her boyfriend; assistance during illnesses from her former neighbor; learning her boyfriend had been selected for death; public hangings; transfer to Leipzig; a death march in April 1945; and abandonment by guards. Ms. D. reflects that she "died" in the camps and is not the same person she was before.

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