Ruth G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2052) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman

Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1923. She recalls her close and large, extended family; an affluent home; attending school in Sosnowiec; Zionist activities; German invasion; forced relocation; a German who opened a factory in order to help Jews; separation from her parents during a round-up; securing her parents' release; ghettoization; separation from her brother during a round-up (he later perished); her release; round-up and separation from her parents; hiding in a bunker with her sister during the ghetto's liquidation; surrendering fearing they would perish; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her sister; working in a munitions factory; saving her sister from selection; transfer to Auschwitz; surgery on her gangrenous leg; evacuation with her sister to Ravensbrück, Malchow, then Leipzig; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. G. relates traveling to Będzin; futile efforts to find her family; marriage in Langenbielau (Bielawa); illegally traveling to Germany with Beriḥah; and emigrating to the United States in 1950. She shows photographs.