Gusta S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1762) interviewed by Devorah Mann

Videotape testimony of Gusta S., who was born in Kamʹi︡︠anka Buzʹka, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She recalls her affluent, Orthodox family; antisemitic posters; eight-day German occupation in September 1939; Soviet occupation; confiscation of her father's business; attending Russian school; German invasion in June 1941; forced labor; her father bribing Germans; his arrest; learning he was killed; deportations; relatives disappearing; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; their denouncement and deportation on October 28, 1942; jumping from the train; walking to a cousin's house in Rava-Russkai︡︠a; reunion with her sister and brother-in-law who had also escaped; traveling to ZH︡︠ovkva, then the Busʹk ghetto; hiding during round-ups; escaping with her sister and brother-in-law; assistance from a German civilian; being hidden by a non-Jew; hiding in a forest after the town was burned; liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944; returning home; living in Rome and Bologna; and emigration to the United States in 1947. She discusses sharing her experiences with her children; continuing to assist her rescuers; and her inability to truly describe her experiences. She shows photographs and memorabilia.