Marta E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2769) interviewed by Gabrielle Tyrnauer,

Videotape testimony of Marta E., a Romani, who was born in East Prussia, Germany. She remembers moving to Berlin with her family at age six; one brother's deportation to Dachau and another's to Buchenwald; receiving both brothers' ashes with a notice that they had died from pneumonia; examination with her siblings by "race scientists"; deportation with her family to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager) at Auschwitz/Birkenau; her father and uncle being beaten to death by an SS officer; her mother being beaten by a Romani kapo; her sister arranging their transfer to Ravensbrück; beatings, killings, appels, and starvation; and liberation from Bergen-Belsen by British troops. Mrs. E. discusses her strong belief that Jesus saved her in the camps; her present faith; marriage to another survivor; testifying at a war crime trial; and continuing persecutions of Romanies.