Natalie G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Natalie G., who was born in Radzymin, Poland in 1940, and was left on a doorstep at eighteen months old when her parents fled the Germans. She recalls being in a convent with many other children; pervasive memories of hunger; being "shuffled around"; striving to be quiet and unobtrusive; and attending church where she learned negative things about Jews. Mrs. G. recounts her postwar reunion with her father; confusion because she had no concept of family; feeling "shuffled around" again; adjusting to being Jewish; mixed feelings at her father's remarriage when she was about seven; being sick but having no fear of death; and the family's move to Marseille, France in 1948. She describes feeling displaced by the birth of a younger brother; being more comfortable with adults than children; adolescent fantasies of becoming a nun; her pain at having so few memories of early years; and understanding what her mother must have gone through in deciding to give up her child. Mrs. G. shows family pictures.

2 videocassettes