Rita S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rita S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929, the youngest of four children. She recounts the flags changing in 1933; her father's strong German patriotism; her older sister's emigration to Palestine that year; a close extended family; attending a Jewish school; being beaten on the street by Hitler Youth; her oldest brother's emigration to Buenos Aires in 1935; her father and brother hiding when Polish Jews were rounded up for deportation; a warning from non-Jewish neighbors prior to Kristallnacht; another neighbor saving their store from vandalism; deciding to leave (her brother had sent papers for them from Buenos Aires); departing via Marseille in December 1938; economic difficulties since they were forced to leave all their assets behind; helping her parents in their candy store; her mother's death in 1947; and her father's in 1952. Ms. S. discusses Jewish society in Buenos Aires and her emigration to the United States after thirty years in Argentina. She shows photographs.

3 videocassettes