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Dorothy R.

“My husband wrote [from Janowska concentration camp] notes to me through a neighbor telling me how to get out. I got Gentile papers and a friend found us [Dorothy R. and her daughter Sophia] an apartment outside city where we were not known. We lived with retired bank director who didn’t know I was Jewish. A Polish friend from university knew us came to visit...My daughter was so young she didn’t know what we went through. She was a very smart child. Once my husband came out of the attic and was sitting at the table. My neighbor knocked on the door and my daughter said by herself – she knew when to be quiet – even younger children knew...”


Holocaust Testimony (HVT 291)
Fortunoff Video Archive
for Holocaust Testimonies
Yale University Library


Read testimony of Sophia R., Dorothy’s daughter.