Dora S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1239) interviewed by Henry Kaplowitz and Selma Dubnick,

Videotape testimony of Dora S., who was born in Sighet, Romania in 1919, one of six children. She recounts working as a secretary in a law firm; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; round-up to a synagogue; brutal treatment by Hungarians; deportation to Auschwitz in May; separation from her parents and siblings; privileged work for a kapo because she spoke several languages; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in November, then Bendorf five weeks later; transfer to Braunschweig; slave labor clearing rubble; receiving bread from a German woman; train transport; assistance from the Red Cross; transfer to Padborg, Denmark, then Landskrona, Sweden; kind treatment by the Danes and Swedes; transfer to another city, then Stockholm; learning one sister and one brother had survived; working in a factory in Örebro; and emigration to Palestine in 1948 to join her future husband, then to the United States in 1956 to join her siblings. Ms. S. discusses remaining optimistic in the camps and continuing contact with one friend from Auschwitz.