Asja T. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Asja T., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1917, one of six children. She recalls attending Russian school; a large, extended family; their orthodoxy; her son's birth in 1939; German invasion in 1941; briefly fleeing; ghettoization; her father being caught in a round-up in August 1941 (he was killed); her mother being killed in March 1942; obtaining false papers a year later from a non-Jewish neighbor; escaping with her son; briefly staying with her brother's non-Jewish girlfriend; leaving because she did not want to endanger her rescuers; wandering from place to place, begging for over a year; working for a Polish land owner in Surynty; arrest;ddeportation with her son to Germany for forced labor; liberation by United States troops; staying in Switzerland for four months; returning to Minsk; learning her sister and children had been killed; reunion with her youngest brother (other brothers perished as Soviet soldiers); and her younger sister's survival (her brother's girlfriend hid her). Mrs. T. notes the deaths of most of her extended family during the war. She shows photographs and documents.

2 videocassettes