Peska F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Peska F., who was born in Siedlce, Poland in 1920. She recalls a happy, affluent childhood; her father's death in 1930; moving to Warsaw with her mother and siblings; attending school in Krako?w; German invasion; ghettoization in Warsaw; the Judenrat providing resources for her mother to organize a soup kitchen; being overwhelmed by the surrounding suffering; celebrating Rosh ha-Shanah; her brother's resistance activities (he died in the ghetto uprising); escaping with assistance from a family friend; her mother's parting words (she never saw her again); hiding with a Christian family in Altendorf (Spis?ska? Stara? Ves); entering Hungary in 1941; staying with her future husband's aunt in Kos?ice; joining her brother's family in Munkacs; obtaining Hungarian papers; living in Budapest; leaving on the Kasztner train; arrival in Bergen-Belsen; camp life among the Kasztner Jews; traveling to Switzerland in December 1944; working in Cully; living in Zurich and Geneva; joining her sister's family in Israel; marriage in Paris; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. F discusses her reluctance to burden her children with her experiences and fulfilling her promise to her mother to write a book about what happened.

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