Miriam E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-550)

Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who lived in Vilna, Poland among a large extended family. She recalls seders in her grandmother's village; her half-sister's and father's emigrations to Palestine; belonging to Betar; Lithuanian, then Soviet rule; German invasion; ghettoization; escaping; traveling to her grandmother's village; learning her grandmother had been killed; hiding with her grandmother's friend; traveling by night to another town; meeting her future husband; contact with partisans; hiding with her husband in a bunker in the Naroch forest; receiving food from local farmers; joining a Jewish partisan unit; blowing up bridges and trains; assistance from Soviets; some antisemitic partisan units harassing them; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Vilnius, Šiauliai, Łódź, Gdánsk, Bucharest, Budapest, and Graz; living in Florence for about a year, then in Rome; and emigration to the United States in 1948.