Sara W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sara W., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1929. She recalls her family's affluence; attending private school; many close relatives; antisemitism beginning in the late 1930s; German invasion in 1939; moving to the ghetto; separation from her family (she never saw her father or sister again); slave labor at camps, including Gross-Rosen, under brutal conditions; often being the youngest; assistance from older prisoners; conversations about the war ending; liberation from a death march by Soviet troops; traveling to Prague, then Katowice; Red Cross assistance; reunion with her mother; her mother's marriage to her father's friend; preparing for illegal emigration to Palestine in Genoa; meeting her future husband; living on a kibbutz; her daughter's birth; and returning to Germany for health reasons. Ms. W. discusses continuing fears and anger resulting from her experiences; pervasive memories; not discussing her experience with her mother, although sharing it with her daughter; close relations with friends from concentration camp; and believing movies cannot portray, nor others imagine, concentration camp life. She shows photographs.

2 videocassettes