Aneta W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Aneta W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930 to an affluent and large, extended family. She recalls German invasion; briefly fleeing to Zg?obien?; moving to L'viv; Soviet occupation; returning to Krako?w; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups (they were warned by an SS-man for whom her mother made hats); sending her younger brothers to Bochnia; transfer with her mother to P?aszo?w after liquidation of the ghetto; burial of all the children who were killed in the ghetto; working with her mother at the Madritsche factory; volunteering for transfer to the Tarno?w ghetto; forced labor; paying a Pole to help them escape; reunion with her brothers in Bochnia; smuggling themselves into Czechoslovakia; brief imprisonment in Prague; their release due to intervention from the Jewish council; illegal entry into Hungary; incarceration and release; traveling to Budapest; living in Moc?a as non-Jews; returning to Budapest; moving to Bucharest; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. W. recounts reunion with her father in Bucharest; emigration to Israel, then Australia; and the loss of many family members. She shows photographs and discusses her cousin's book which includes some of her story.

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