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Elliot Perry

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Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Henry and Sally K. Ms. K. was born in Wolanów, Poland in 1930, one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; harassment by non-Jewish children; attending a Jewish school in Radom; German invasion; soldiers burning the synagogue and killing the rabbi; her father being killed; her older brother hiding, and her sister going to Warsaw (she was killed); incarceration with her mother, sister, and younger brother in a forced labor camp for about a year; their transfer to Bliżyn; public execution of her cousin when he tried to escape; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her brother; saving her mother from selections; their transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; learning her older brother had returned and was killed by Poles; her mother sending her to England to study; her mother, sister, and younger brother emigrating to Israel; marriage to a survivor; and the birth of two sons. Ms. K discusses fasting on Yom Kippur and participating in daily prayers led by her mother in the camps; pervasive painful memories; nightmares; and sharing her experiences with her children.
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