Maria B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Maria B., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. She recalls her affluent childhood; rampant antisemitism; German invasion in September 1939; her father's unwillingness to leave despite having the financial means; anti-Jewish measures; her younger brother's escape to the Soviet zone; refusing an offer to hide with Poles because of her reluctance to leave her family; ghettoization in March 1941; marriage in 1942; her family running a ghetto factory; her father and brother being arrested; bribing an official to release them; transfer with her family to P?aszo?w; mass killings and executions, some by Amon Goeth; her mother's deportation (she never saw her again); transport with her sisters to Auschwitz in May 1944, then to Stutthof at the end of 1944; slave labor building an airport; assistance from a non-Jew; a death march in January 1945 on which her sisters were killed; escaping; hiding with assistance from local Germans; acquiring false papers; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Warsaw, then Lv'iv; learning her father, brother, and husband perished; marriage in Krako?w; her son's birth in Munich; antisemitic incidents in Bamberg; and emigrating to the United States. Mrs. B. discusses her pervasive memories and nightmares and sharing her experiences with her sons.

2 videocassettes