Sarika N. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sarika N., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1926. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending Greek public school; German invasion; her father's deportation for forced labor (she never saw him again); ghettoization in 1943; marriage to her boyfriend, hoping to escape with him; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her mother, husband, and younger sister; separation with her sister from her husband and mother (she never saw them again); slave labor; assistance from a non-Jewish political prisoner; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); a privileged position in the infirmary, then in Canada Kommando; trading clothes and valuables for food to share with friends; the Sonderkommando uprising; a death march and train transport to Ravensbru?ck, then Malchow; slave labor in a munitions factory; returning to Thessalonike? after liberation; remarriage; and finding her sister's name in camp records on a recent visit to Auschwitz.

2 videocassettes