Ruth W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ruth W., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1914. Mrs. W. recalls her childhood; her father's death in 1927; being legally barred from university attendance; working as a bookeeper for her uncle; marriage in December 1938; staying with their respective parents to avoid registering; and failing to obtain affidavits from American relatives. She tells of forced labor in a munitions plant; her mother's deportation to Ri?ga in August 1942; her husband joining her when his parents were deported to Terezi?n; hiding with a farmer when her husband's deportation seemed imminent in January 1943; fleeing to another place when a policeman was suspicious of her husband's false papers; returning to Berlin, where hiding seemed easier; being wounded in an air raid; difficulties securing food; escaping when Gestapo officers arrested the relative who hid them; living with foreign workers in a factory during the siege of Berlin; liberation; interrogation by skeptical Soviet officers; and emigration to America in 1946. Mrs. W.'s account contains numerous examples of assistance from non-Jews.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)