Masha P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Masha P., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the younger of two daughters. She recalls a very happy childhood among a large extended family; attending a Bundist school; her parents' atheism; her sister moving to Białystok in 1939; attending a Bund summer camp; her father coming for her; German invasion the next day; anti-Jewish restrictions, including closing schools; working at a Bund sanitarium outside Warsaw; returning immediately prior to ghettoization; caring for young children in their building; obtaining food in a Bund kitchen; selling goods on the street; rampant deaths from starvation; illnesses resulting from horrendous sanitation; hiding with her parents during a round-up in July 1942; her mother's and father's captures; learning her father had escaped; his recapture days later (she never saw her parents again); hiding in an attic, sewers, then a bunker; joining the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) after the round-up; her strong desire for revenge; preparing for the uprising with Marek Edelman's group; attacking German forces on April 18-19, 1942; moving several times including to Mila 18, where she met Mordecai Anielewicz; the heartbreak of having to abandon a wounded friend; and moving to Edelman's bunker, then to the sewers on May 9.

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