Grace N. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Grace N., who was born in Posen, Germany (presently Poznan?, Poland) in 1920. She describes her family; moving to Berlin when Posen became part of Poland; the family's successful piano store; their comfortable life; changes with the rise of Nazism; the impact of the Nuremberg laws on their personal lives; her siblings emigrating; the destruction of their store on Kristallnacht; being offered a job by a concert pianist to accompany her on a tour of the United States; and difficulties obtaining papers to leave. She recalls the emotional departure from her parents; missing her appointment with the pianist in Rome; embarking on the ship from Naples without her; various jobs, learning English, and establishing herself; learning of her parents' emigration to Amsterdam; receiving notice from the Red Cross of her father's death on his way to Westerbork; marrying in 1946; helping her mother (who survived Westerbork and Terezi?n) come to the United States; and their subsequent lives. Mrs. N. shows her mother's diary and some documents and ponders her mother's refusal to discuss her war experience.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)