Rebecca P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rebecca P., who was born in Poland in 1920, one of five children. She recalls attending a village school; living with an aunt in order to attend school in Zamość; German invasion then withdrawal a week later, followed by Soviet invasion, their withdrawal, then German occupation; one brother leaving with the Soviets; another hiding with his wife and child as non-Jews; escaping with her mother from a round-up; hiding in the woods; neighbors bringing them food; round-up to Izbica; ghettoization; marriage; her husband's killing two months later; her mother's deportation; escaping with others to the woods; hiding in attics in houses of three different Poles for thirty months; five months prior to liberation living openly as a servant (the others remained in the attic); escaping with the others to Zamość; liberation by Soviet troops; living with returning survivors; marriage to one three months later; traveling to Wrocław; her daughter's birth; assistance from UNRRA; living in the Bergen-Belsen and Eschwegge displaced persons camps; her husband's severe illness; his hospitalization in Göttingen; visits from two brothers who had survived; and emigration to the United States thirty months later.

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