Ruth M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ruth M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1927. She recalls her childhood in Tarno?w; her father's medical practice; her mother traveling to Switzerland in summer 1939 while she and her brother stayed with an aunt in C?esky? Te?s?i?n; German invasion; her father's military draft; traveling to stay with an aunt in Krako?w; returning to her parents in Tarno?w; confiscation of their home; forced labor repairing military uniforms; ghettoization in 1941; a former non-Jewish employee hiding her cousin; refusing to hide, not wanting to leave her family; separation from them when she was deported with a cousin to P?aszo?w in September 1943 (she never saw her family again); slave labor in a factory; public hangings; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna in December; assignment to a munitions factory; sham improvement for a Red Cross visit; transfer to Cze?stochowa in fall 1944; remaining with friends from Tarno?w; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; assistance from the Joint and UNRRA; moving with an aunt to Czechoslovakia; receiving travel documents in Prague from relatives in the United States; moving to Stockholm; and emigration to the United States in May 1947. Ms. M. discusses the importance of being with her friends to her survival; her marriage, career, and family; and using German reparations to send her children to Jewish day school. She shows photographs.

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