Gunia P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Gunia P., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1915. She recalls German invasion; ghettoization; receiving food from a Polish friend; her four year old child's murder by the Germans; incarceration with her mother in Budzyń; receiving bread from her husband; their transfer to Majdanek; slave labor sorting clothing; assistance from her husband during a forced march to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her husband upon arrival; receiving medicine from a Polish woman and extra bread from her mother when she was ill; having blood drawn involuntarily; transport to Bergen-Belsen, then Theresienstadt; witnessing cannibalism; and liberation by the Soviet troops. Mrs. P. remembers learning her brother had been killed; traveling to Frankfurt; reunion with her husband; living at Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; emigrating to the United States with assistance from HIAS and the Joint; being told no one wanted to hear about survivor experiences; nightmares about piles of corpses in Bergen-Belsen; and testifying at a war crime trial in Hannover. She shows photographs.

2 videocassettes