Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1937. She describes her father emigrating from Germany in 1933; his continued contact with his family in Germany; marriage to her mother in 1934; their bourgeois life; German invasion in 1940; her father hiding to avoid arrest; her parents' decision to leave in spite of sympathetic treatment from the Danes; her maternal grandparents' arrest in 1943 (she later learned they were deported to Terezi?n); escape with her parents to Malmo?, Sweden in October 1943; living with relatives there; celebrating the Danish liberation; returning to Copenhagen; female collaborators being marched through the streets with their heads shaved; her father's return to Berlin in 1954, where he became a leader of the Jewish community; marriage to an American soldier; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. S. discusses her pride in maintaining her Danish citizenship and reflects upon the loss of spirit of her parents' generation resulting from the Holocaust.

2 videocassettes