Esther G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1944. She recounts her parents' marriage in 1943 in Kastoria; her birth in Thessalonike? on April 1, 1944; a non-Jewish nurse befriending her mother in the hospital; the nurse taking her to live with her family; being raised as their child (her mother was shot and her father deported); learning she was not their child and was Jewish when she was twelve; visiting her mother's home in Kastoria and meeting her mother's friends; attending university in Thessalonike?; marriage and divorce; moving to Athens; helpful therapy; living in Israel where she met her father's sister, a wonderful experience; returning to Greece; marriage to a camp survivor in 1988; and recently visiting camps in Poland with her husband. She discusses searching for her Jewish identity and family; the importance of marriage to a Jew to her emotional health; and continuing issues that will always be with her.

2 videocassettes