Lillian N. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lillian N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1933 to an assimilated, wealthy family. She recalls German invasion while visiting her grandfather; returning to Warsaw with her mother and one-year-old sister to join her father; ghettoization; becoming sad; always being terrified of round-ups; her parents sending her sister to non-Jews; being smuggled in 1942 to her grandmother, whose second husband was not Jewish and no one in the village knew she was; being hidden in a hole during a German raid; her parents retrieving her two years later; being informed her sister was dead; living with her parents as their niece using false papers; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Warsaw; her sister's birth; learning their large extended family had all been killed except the grandmother with whom she hid; hearing from an uncle in the United States; emigrating to New York, then Montreal, in 1946; her father's death soon after; and her mother's remarriage to a survivor. Ms. N. discusses lifelong fears resulting from her experiences, including revealing her Judaism; her family's silence about the war; and hoping her sister survived (she has searched for her in Poland several times). She shows photographs.

2 videocassettes