Louis C. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Louis C., who was born in Berlin in 1925. He recounts his father's service in World War I; living in Nice while his father was a German government attorney; returning to Berlin in 1931; loss of family servants due to the Nuremberg laws; sham improvements during the 1936 Olympics; his bar mitzvah in 1938; Kristallnacht; non-Jewish neighbors hiding his father; expulsion from school; attending an ad hoc Jewish school; his parents putting him, his sister, and cousin on a train; arrival in Oldenzaal; living in a refugee camp, an orphanage, then another camp; joining his parents in Antwerp; moving to Brussels; German invasion in May 1940; arrest by Belgians as an enemy alien while en route to school; train transfer to France; separation of Jews near Paris; transfer to Villeneuve-de-Berg; receiving Red Cross forms to notify his parents of his location; transfer a few weeks later to St. Cyprien, then to Gurs in May 1941; encountering his father; transfer to Les Milles in August; a brief visit with his mother and sister; deportation to Mauthausen; escaping with four others in spring/summer 1942; and traveling across France to Spain with assistance from the underground.

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