Matilda B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Matilda B., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1921. She describes her family's poverty; working in a factory starting at age fourteen; cordial relations with non-Jews; caring for her mother who was paralyzed; placing her in a hospital during German bombing in April 1941; she, her younger brother, and a friend moving her mother to an apartment; registering as a Jew; her brother deciding not to register himself and their mother; her brother obtaining false papers for all of them, including her friend; her mother's death in 1942; burying her as a Christian Serb with help from a non-Jewish friend; her brother bringing a starving Jewish child to the partisans; a priest giving him false papers; the partisan keeping the child until the war ended; receiving assistance from her aunt and partisans; liberation of Belgrade; moving to an apartment provided by the partisans; working in a textile factory; many awards as an outstanding worker, her way of repaying those who had helped save her; and meeting Tito in 1947 when she received one award. She notes her father and older brother were killed as Jews. She shows photographs and documents.

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