Miriam E. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1929, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's poverty; their move to Lublin; attending three years of public school; visiting her aunt in Bełżyce; German invasion; observing Germans killing family friends; returning home four months later; her family escaping in Piaski during their forced relocation; living with a family friend; returning to Lublin days later; her parents returning her to her aunt in Bełżyce, thinking it safer (she never saw them again); in 1942, her uncle sending her and two cousins to another uncle in Lublin, who had a workshop vital to the Germans in Lublin; living with him in the Majdan Tartarski ghetto; hiding during round-ups; returning to Bełżyce, which had been ghettoized; hiding during round-ups; a woman living with them giving birth; hiding with non-Jews in 1942; denouncement; the woman who hid them bribing the Polish police to release them; deportation to Budzyn; a kapo allowing her younger male cousin to stay with them in the female barrack; slave labor in the kitchen providing access to extra food; sharing it with her family; and observing Kommandant Reinhold Feiks execute one of her cousins.

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