Mariia A. and Elizaveta Y. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mariia A., who was born in Belarus in 1912, one of six children, and her daughter Elizaveta Y., who was born in Besedสน, Belarus in 1935. Mrs. A. recalls her father's death; being sent to live with relatives in another town; her arranged marriage in Besedสน; moving to Lahoysk (Logoysk); German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; escape with her children from a mass killing; fleeing to Gayna; hiding in a forest; walking to Pleshchany, then to her mother's village; leaving her younger daughter with her mother; living with a convert from Judaism and her husband; her hosts being shot for contact with partisans; caring for their children until relatives claimed them; continuing contact with the partisans; liberation by Soviet troops; a futile search for her husband; returning with her children to Lahoysk; finding her home destroyed; living on a collective farm; and her continuing impoverishment. Mrs. A. notes that her mother, daughter, and other relatives were murdered in a mass killing in her hometown.

3 videocassettes