Ruth G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ruth G., who was born in Katowice, Germany (presently Poland) in 1909. She recounts moving to Bytom in 1921; working in her father's insurance business; his death in 1930; managing her mother's candy store; marriage in 1936; anti-Jewish restrictions; moving to Brzeg; her son's birth in 1938; her mother joining her in Brzeg; her son's illness; bringing him to the Jewish hospital in Wrocław; his recovery; Kristallnacht; having to sweep the street; her husband fleeing with her brother; their incarceration in a concentration camp; her brother's release and emigration to England; her husband's release because they had a United States visa; meeting him in Berlin; emigration to the United States via Belgium in September 1939; assistance from HIAS; and unsuccessful attempts to obtain a visa for her mother. Ms. G. notes the deaths of most of her relatives in the Holocaust; having a child in 1938 was "absolutely crazy", but not regretting it now; and her husband's death in 1968.

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