Adele W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. She recalls German invasion in 1939; round-ups of Jews; forced relocation to another home; hiding in a storage room with her family during round-ups; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker during a major round-up; hearing shooting in the streets; leaving the bunker to join her father when he was caught; detention in the ghetto; separation from her father; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; meeting two aunts and a cousin; forced labor in a munitions factory; giving extra food from her aunt to a friend; the death march to Ravensbru?ck, then Malchow, beginning in January 1945; continuing death marches; being beaten for trying to find food; escaping with her friends; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Katowice with Soviet soldiers, then to Austria with help from Haganah; meeting her future husband; moving to Naples, then Bacoli; joining a Mizrachi group; emigrating to Palestine in 1946; marriage in 1947; and emigrating to the United State twelve years later. Mrs. W. emphasizes her important friendships in the camps.

2 videocassettes