Mary G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mary B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1908. She tells of her orthodox family; moving to Graz in 1935 to prepare for emigration to Palestine; returning to Vienna in 1937; German annexation of Austria; one brother's escape to Switzerland and another's to Belgium; his placing an advertisement in a British paper to find a position for her; receiving an offer of employment and a visa from a British family; the difficult parting from her parents; seeing her brother in Belgium en route; and arrival in London. She describes living in Torquay; her employer's dissatisfaction with her; support given by the local Quaker church; making friends through a local refugee club; leaving for London after eighteen months; being caught in the blitzkrieg in Manchester; remaining and working as a waitress and in a factory; reunion with her third brother who was a United States army officer; postwar work in Bloomsbury House, a refugee support organization; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. G. recalls learning of her parents' deportation to Minsk (they did not survive); adjustment problems in America; marriage in 1948; and her daughter's birth in 1950.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)