Rose R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rose R. who was born in Luxembourg in 1927. She recalls her family's candy factory; attending Catholic school until Jews were expelled; her father's belief that the Germans were just passing through; her older brother's emigration to Chile; the family's move to Brussels; attending school there for a year; her sister being hidden by priests; the family's flight to Roubaix, France; and her arrest (she was about twelve). Mrs. R. recounts deportation to Majdanek; being brutally beaten; a guard who saved her from being gassed; forced labor in coal mines for a year; having an appendectomy in the infirmary; the public killing of a girl from Luxembourg; another girl from Luxembourg who gave birth to a baby which was immediately shot (the mother survived); liberation by Soviet troops; transport to Odessa, where she was reunited with her brother; their return to Marseille; reunion with their parents; the family's emigration to Israel, then the United States; and her return to Luxembourg. She shows a picture of Mauthausen survivors that includes her brother.

2 videocassettes