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Gillian Green Douek

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Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Ida N., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1924, the oldest of ten children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; living with relatives in Kraków; German invasion; returning home; one brother fleeing to Warsaw (she never saw him again); ghettoization; her father's death from starvation; deportation with her mother and siblings to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw them again); wanting to die; transfer to Bremen; slave labor; a death march and train transport to Bergen-Belsen; lying next to corpses; liberation; assistance from the Red Cross; depression resulting from the realization her family had not survived and she had no one for whom to live; being moved to Sweden; recuperating and making friends; an aunt from England contacting her; emigrating to join her; marriage; and the births of her children and grandchildren. Ms. N. discusses the terrible impact of starvation; vivid painful memories of her childhood and family; and difficulty discussing her experiences.
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