Esther K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1927. She recalls a happy childhood; her family's good relations with non-Jews; German occupation; anti-Jewish measures; public hangings; her father moving to a tractor plant outside of Kharkiv, following German orders issued on December 16, 1941, for the Jews to gather there; her mother's decision to hide after visiting her father, who begged her not to bring their children there; obtaining false papers with assistance from their non-Jewish building superintendent; assistance from non-Jewish neighbors; traveling to the countryside to bring food home; her deportation as a non-Jew to Hamburg, and then Marburg; working as a slave laborer on a farm, hiding her Jewish identity; liberation by British troops; transfer to the Soviet Zone in Neubrandenburg; serving in the NKVD branch of the Soviet army; and returning to Kharkiv after her demobilization in November 1945. Mrs. K. discusses reunion with her mother and siblings; moving to T?bilisi after her marriage in 1947; antisemitic incidents; and emigration to the United States in 1975.

2 videocassettes