Carol W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1316) interviewed by Susan Millen and Dori Laub,

Videotape testimony of Carol W., who was born in Stanisławów, Poland (now Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine), in 1915. Mrs. W. relates her marriage; the birth of her son Clemens L. in 1937; Soviet, then German occupation; the shooting of some 10,000 Jews in an Aktion; ghettoization; believing her family safe because her father was in the Judenrat; hiding with other relatives during a September 1942 Aktion when her husband and father were taken; and escaping on false papers with her son, brother, and niece. She tells of taking her son to Lwów; a narrow escape en route; securing a job and sending for her mother; incarceration for six weeks in Janowska; repeated selections; escaping; her mother's death; journeying to Warsaw; reunion with her brother; placing her son in a convent at Otwock; and becoming nanny to a Gestapo officer's child. She recounts being unable to visit her son due to the Polish Warsaw uprising; a Polish woman saving her from deportation in Pruszków; liberation; reunion with her son; and selling contraband cigarettes in Katowice to support herself after the war. This testimony contains numerous examples of assistance by non-Jews.