Dorotka Goldstein Roth Dorotka Goldstein Roth, was a Jewish girl born in Warsaw, Poland on February 1st, 1932. Miss Roth, the youngest of three children in her family had a very charismatic father. Mr. Roth believed in Zionism, this meant that he reasoned that Jewish people should go back to Palestine because that’s was where the holy land of Israel was, their true home. Dorotka’s father, in addition to be a Zionist, was a very caring man, he even built a soap kitchen for Jewish refugees in Warsaw. He had two jobs to support his family; he worked for a popular Jewish newspaper and was the director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. When Dorotka (Dora) was still very young, just about to attend the first grade, war erupted in Europe. The
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This was where Dorotka spent most of her during the horrid years of the Holocaust. She remembers many ungodly stories of her time in Stutthof. One particularly that is horrid, is when some women of the camp escaped. The guards in turn, penalized all the women of the camp, even though most of them had not been involved. The revolting minded guards, made all the women, young and old, stand outside naked for twelve hours in bitter temperature. Then, the men choose about five women at random and raped them in front of all the others. Dorotka remembers being sickened, never have seeing sexual intercourse before, and she also recalls her mother covering her eyes so she would not have to witness more. Another story, Dora remembers of when she was young and living at the camp, is when her mother tried to hide her in the human waste hole. What had occured is, the trucks showed up at the camp to come and “clean” the camp of the children and the disabled. Wanting to save her daughter, Dora’s mother tossed her into the pit that all the Jewish people of the camp used for their feces. Dora distinctly recounts the smell, and how the contents of the hole reached all the way to her chin, anymore and she may have drowned. She also remembers how the smell followed her around for days even though her mother had cleaned her off. Before long, her mother died of
This was where Dorotka spent most of her during the horrid years of the Holocaust. She remembers many ungodly stories of her time in Stutthof. One particularly that is horrid, is when some women of the camp escaped. The guards in turn, penalized all the women of the camp, even though most of them had not been involved. The revolting minded guards, made all the women, young and old, stand outside naked for twelve hours in bitter temperature. Then, the men choose about five women at random and raped them in front of all the others. Dorotka remembers being sickened, never have seeing sexual intercourse before, and she also recalls her mother covering her eyes so she would not have to witness more. Another story, Dora remembers of when she was young and living at the camp, is when her mother tried to hide her in the human waste hole. What had occured is, the trucks showed up at the camp to come and “clean” the camp of the children and the disabled. Wanting to save her daughter, Dora’s mother tossed her into the pit that all the Jewish people of the camp used for their feces. Dora distinctly recounts the smell, and how the contents of the hole reached all the way to her chin, anymore and she may have drowned. She also remembers how the smell followed her around for days even though her mother had cleaned her off. Before long, her mother died of