Genia L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Genia L., who was born in Szydłowiec, Poland in 1922, the third of four children. She recalls her warm and loving home; her family's orthodoxy; attending a Polish school; German invasion in September 1939; selling their possessions for food; ghettoization; her two older brothers' marriages in 1941; a warning two days prior to a round-up in fall 1942; moving to a work camp with her brother and his wife; slave labor building railroad tracks; escaping with her brother; a Polish acquaintance purchasing train tickets for them; joining their grandmother in the Skarżysko ghetto; learning her parents and younger brother had been deported to Treblinka; hearing from her other brother (he was later deported to Treblinka); round-up to Skarżysko concentration camp; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory in Werke B; living in a barrack with relatives and a friend; and sewing to earn extra food for her brother, uncle, and friend.

10 videocassettes