Avivit K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Avivit K., who was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania in 1932, one of three children. She recounts her family's Zionism; speaking Hebrew at home; a trip to Palestine in 1935 with her mother and sister; her family delaying emigration to care for her developmentally disabled brother; Soviet occupation; her father's arrest and release; German invasion; her father's and uncle's arrest by Lithuanians (they were killed); ghettoization; forced labor with her sister; Lithuanians giving her food; a public hanging; her mother hiding her sister with non-Jews (she returned shortly thereafter); she and her sister going to work with her mother during the children's round-up in November 1943 (her brother was deported); forced labor in a leather and shoe factory; deportation to Stutthof; transfer to other camps; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Białystok, then Łódź; joining a Dror kibbutz; moving to Landsberg displaced persons camp; her mother's and sister's emigration to Israel; traveling to Milan; and emigration to Israel in 1948. Ms. K. discusses her guilt over her brother's death.

3 videocassettes