Tzipora H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Tzipora H., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1933, the youngest of three children. She recounts starting school two weeks prior to the German invasion; brief Soviet occupation, then German return; a mass round-up, including her older brother; her father bribing a German to secure his release; having him smuggled into the Soviet zone; her parents' arrests; she and her brother being evicted from their home; living with an uncle; her parents' return; ghettoization; building a bunker with other families; hiding with her family and others during round-ups; discovery by Germans; escaping with her mother; joining her father and brother in a local work camp; hiding during the days (children were not permitted); her brother's murder in a mass killing; her parents' deportation; Fred O., an influential prisoner, helping her obtain a kitchen job; deportation with her aunt and cousin to Budzyń; public executions; her cousin sharing extra food; composing songs about camp life; their transfer to Majdanek; slave labor in the laundry, then agricultural work; and Soviet POWS giving her and the other children extra food.

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