Paulina I. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4181)

Videotape testimony of Paulina I., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920, the youngest of eight children. She recounts attending a Polish school; observing antisemitism at school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; one brother and two sisters emigrating to Palestine in the 1930s; another brother's premature death; her brother's visit from Palestine in 1938 (he urged them to emigrate but her father refused); German invasion; fleeing without her parents' knowledge; living in Białystok, Minsk, and Orsha; working at a Soviet factory; returning to Białystok; deportation with her boyfriend to a Soviet camp in Arkhangelʹsk; marriage; her husband preventing her from committing suicide when she learned she was pregnant; her son's birth (he was the only baby to survive from their camp); transfer to Samarqand, then an agricultural area; working as a nurse; returning to Samarqand in 1944, then to Warsaw after the war; learning no one from her family had survived; traveling to Łódź; sending her son with a children's group to Paris; joining him two years later; emigration to Israel; reunion with two sisters; divorce; remarriage; and the birth of another son.