Daniel F. Holocaust testimony

A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Daniel F., whose first testimony was recorded in 1980. Dr. F. recounts having a gun after liberation and deciding not to shoot a German; returning home to Craidorolt?; recovering photographs from a woman and currency his father had buried; reopening his father's store; realizing he had no future there; traveling with a cousin to Budapest, Vienna and Paris; and joining an uncle in the United States. He discusses fantasizing about revenge and food in the camps; the vividness of some memories and loss of others; telling himself in the camps to remember things, like the chimneys in Auschwitz/Birkenau; prisoners' differing "thicknesses" of veneers of civilization; after liberation judging people by estimating the "thickness" of their veneer; deep depression following his first testimony, despite having shared memories with his children before; considering suicide in Kaufering; lack of choices for Jews during the Holocaust; his desire to survive in order to tell what happened; avoiding death selections through sheer luck; praying together on Yom Kippur; people's reluctance to hear his story when he arrived in the States; a friend in medical school who was interested; and no longer judging people by their "veneer" after sharing his experiences with his friend.

4 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)