Lori S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lori S., who was born in Linnich, Germany, in 1922. Mrs. S. speaks of her family's longstanding local prominence; the Nazi boycott of her father's department store; the family's move to Sittard, Holland, in 1934; German invasion in 1940; anti-Semitic measures; ignoring friends' advice to hide; and her family's internment in Westerbork in November 1942. She details camp regimen; her father's anguish at working for the camp Jewish police; naivete? about the destination of departing transports; transfer to Terezi?n in September 1944; separation from her parents and brother; learning of her father and brother's deportation to Auschwitz; forced labor; and close bonds among her group of female prisoners. She recounts refusing inclusion in a prisoner exchange (her father had advised her not to volunteer for anything); elaborate German ruses during a Red Cross visit; depression on learning of Roosevelt's death; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her brother; returning to Holland with her mother; and emigration to the United States in 1947.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)