Dina G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Dina G., who was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1919. She recalls constant poverty and hardships due to "five year plans"; the focus on education; all religions being forbidden; completing four of five years of medical school when Germany invaded in June 1941; fleeing east; strafing by German planes; living in Rastov for two months; traveling with her parents to the Chinese border; receiving a temporary diploma so she could practice medicine; military mobilization; training in Moscow; participating in the battle of Stalingrad; working as a front line surgeon; meeting her future husband in Berlin; realizing, after the war, that almost all the Jews were gone; her daughter's birth; her husband's death from war wounds; living with her parents in Odesa; pervasive antisemitism; emigrating to Canada after her daughter's education was completed in 1977; and participating in Jewish organizations and study groups. Dr. G. shows photographs.

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