Guta Weintraub, Holocaust Survivor Story

USE THIS LINK INSTEAD VIDEO AND AUDIO IS SUPERB ! http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504737 Story part 1 Guta Blass Weintraub, born on January 22, 1924 in Lódz, Poland, describes her childhood and family; her experiences with antisemitism in her youth; attending a private, Jewish, all-girls high school until the German invasion in September 1939; moving from Lódz to Wierzbnik-Starachowice in December 1939 because of fears about what the Germans had planned; the formation of a ghetto and having to share a home with at least one other family; meeting her future husband when he came to her home in the ghetto asking for her father to make him a suit with special pockets; being rounded up in the ghetto’s marketplace and sent to labor camps; managing to smuggle out some pictures with her as she, her mother, and her father were taken to a woodworking camp; surviving several shootings and experiencing starvation; her deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 and staying there until 1944, when she was transferred to Ravensbrück; her liberation by the Swedish Red Cross; and traveling to Sweden to recover. http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504737