Eva and Frank S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eva and her husband Frank S., both of whom are from Germany. Mrs. S. describes her childhood in a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Berlin; her vivid recollection of the day that Hitler came to power; the changes that took place in Nazi Germany, particularly as they affected her in school; Kristallnacht; her emigration to England, as part of a children's transport; and her life in England. Mr. S. speaks of his childhood and youth in Breslau; experiences with antisemitism in school, beginning shortly before Hitler came to power; and the patriotism of German Jews and their refusal to take Hitler seriously. He also discusses his apprenticeship to a Nazi electrician; Kristallnacht, during which he was helped by his non-Jewish cleaning lady; his flight to England, where he worked until the war began, when he was confined as an enemy alien and eventually interned in a German POW camp in Canada; his return to England; and his sense of gratitude for having been spared the fate that Hitler had intended for all Jews.

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