Sophie L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-424) interviewed by Arnold Band and Florabel Kinsler,

Videotape testimony of Sophie L., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1921. She recalls her family's Zionist beliefs; membership in Betar; her older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1938; attending a Jabotinsky lecture; German invasion; being drafted as a nurse into the Polish army; returning to Łódź; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; her father's death from starvation; deportation of her mother and two sisters (she never saw them again); watching children being thrown to the pavement from the fourth story during a round-up; working as a ghetto administrator; joining the underground; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; appells, selections, and slave labor; transfer to Ravensbrüzck, then Müphlhausen; and liberation by British troops from Bergen-Belsen. Mrs. L. describes moving to Hannover; attending a Zionist meeting in Bergen-Belsen; reunion with her brother, who was in the Jewish brigade; marriage; emigration to Palestine in 1946; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1951. She discusses the importance of luck and coincidence to her survival; reluctance to share her experiences with her children; her nightmares; the importance of being socially active; her involvement in Holocaust survivors' groups; and her attachment to Israel.