Stanley R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Stanley R., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1934. Mr. R. recalls his assimilated home; his German governess; German invasion; his father's and uncle's flight to the Soviet Union; moving with his mother to his uncle's home in Wieliczka; the horror of witnessing a building being burned containing Jewish adults and children; their return to Krako?w using false papers; his mother working as a domestic; SS confiscation of her employer's home; his mother continuing to work there while hiding him in a closet for six months; being smuggled to Bratislava with his mother, an aunt, and a cousin in winter 1942; traveling to Budapest; hiding with non-Jews until liberation; traveling to a displaced persons camp in Vienna with help from HIAS; moving to Paris; separation from his mother while recuperating in a sanitarium; their emigration to Montre?al in 1949, then the United States in 1952; and marriage in 1961. Mr. R. discusses learning of his father's death in Auschwitz; his children's sensitivity about the Holocaust; and his ambivalence about Germany. He shows photographs.

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