This testimonial film made by the University of La Matanza for Holocaust-Shoah Museum of Buenos Aires, recounts the ordeal of Jewish women went through during the Holocaust. Through interviews with 6 survivors of concentration camps, ghettos and actions of resistance under Nazi rule, shows the essential role of fighting against oppression, abuse, degradation and death.
Lecture by Laura Rusk, a Holocaust survivor from Katowice, Poland. Rusk describes her memories of the Nazi occupation, the yellow star, arrest, expulsion to Landeshut (labour camp in Germany) where she worked making thread from flax, expulsion to Peterswaldau in Lower Silesia, where she worked at a munitions factory, assembling fuses for bombs; escape with a Czech prisoner and journey by train from place to place and town to town until they arrived at Neisse, capture, sent to Aushwitz, tattoed number 79564 on left arm, worked without rest clearing away heavy stones, hunger, secretarial work in the camp office,...
A documentary film. It reveals the hidden story about 999 unmarried, young Jewish women registered for government service in a supposed shoe factory and ended up in Auschwitz. Their government had paid the Nazis to take them and work them to death. 94-year-old Edith Grosman reveals the truth of this almost of women's history. The film is based on the book "The First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz".