Helen C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-468) interviewed by Judie Wayman

Videotape testimony of Helen C., who was born in Lypcha, Ukraine (then the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy) in approximately 1917, one of five siblings. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; working on their farm; becoming a seamstress; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Budapest in 1942; working as a housekeeper; incarceration in a brick factory; deportation to Ravensbrück; slave labor; being subjected to painful medical experiments; sharing food with a fellow prisoner; transfer to Rechlin after one year; praying to herself; escaping from a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; walking to Berlin; hospitalization; returning home in August 1945; reunion with her brother; traveling illegally to Prague, then Germany, with assistance from the Haganah; living in Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp; assistance from the Joint and the Red Cross; marriage; her husband's job for UNRRA; recuperating from lung disease in a sanatorium; and emigration with her husband and brother to join relatives in the United States in 1949. Ms. C. notes the killing of fifty relatives; retaining her faith; nightmares of fleeing from Nazis; and sharing her experiences with her children.