Miriam T. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Miriam T., who was born in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia in 1924, the older of two sisters. She recounts living in Pohořelice; attending Czech public school; her mother's illness in 1931; wonderful visits to her maternal grandmother; participating in Makabi ha-tsaʻir; her mother's death in 1936; attending boarding school in Brno; fleeing with her father to Luhačovice two days prior to the German invasion; returning to school in Brno; anti-Jewish restrictions, including her expulsion from school; participating in hachsharahs in Mělník, Prague, and another town; a brief family visit in 1941; her father's arrest; notification that he died in Mauthausen; deportation to Theresienstadt in March 1942; living in the Hechalutz barrack; her sister living in a children's barrack; her paternal grandmother's death; assignment to the garden; smuggling food to her group, but not her sister; arrival of relatives; frequent deportations including her relatives; and the Jewish administration's efforts to save the young at the expense of the elderly.

10 videocassettes