Rachel G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rachel G., who was born in Vilna, Poland (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1924, one of four children. She recounts attending Montessori, then a Tarbut school; her older brother's death; anti-Jewish harassment; participating in a Zionist youth group; assisting Jews expelled from Germany in Zbąszyń in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; slave labor in a forest; transfer back to the ghetto; producing homemade bombs for the underground; her father volunteering for transfer to a labor camp (they never saw him again); an unsuccessful escape attempt; the partisans refusing her membership because she would not take an oath to abandon her family; deportation with her mother, sister, and aunt to Kaiserwald; slave labor in an AEG factory; helping a fellow prisoner escape; sabotaging production; transfer by ship to Stutthof, then Toruń one month later; a woman from Vilnius giving her extra food in Stutthof; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling with her mother to Warsaw; encountering antisemitism among Poles; traveling to Łódź, then Lublin; obtaining false papers as Greeks in order to leave Poland; and briefly staying in Cluj, then Aiud.

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