Suzi W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Suzi W., who was born in 1928 in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic), an only child. She recounts a very happy childhood until age ten; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; a friend warning her father to flee; moving to Brno; her parents' arrests; living with an aunt; her aunt's arrest and suicide; living with another aunt; attending a Jewish school; participating in Tehelet Lavan, including their summer camp in 1940; her parents' release; deportation with them to Theresienstadt in January 1942; assignment to several jobs; being moved to a youth barrack; arrival of her maternal grandparents, her paternal grandmother, and her uncle and his daughter; her mother's efforts to help them; her grandparents' deaths; continuing guilt that she did not visit them enough; volunteering to learn to be an electrician; assistance from the Red Cross; attending lectures and concerts which distracted her from hunger; deportation with her parents to Birkenau; their assignment to the family camp; and slave labor in a clothing warehouse.

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