Ruth N. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ruth N., who was born in Ansbach, Germany in 1931. She recounts her father's position as a rabbi; antisemitic harassment; cordial relations with a neighbor who belonged to the SS; her father's job offer from Paris; their emigration in 1937; birth of a sibling; her father's enlistment in the Foreign Legion in 1939; German invasion in May 1940; traveling with her mother and siblings to Albi, where her father was stationed; living in Milhars and Toulouse; her father's discharge; moving to Nice in 1941; benign conditions under Italian occupation; the birth of twin siblings; her uncle's family joining them from Holland; a round-up by French police in 1943 including her father, sister and herself; their release; her father obtaining false papers; their trip to Aix-les-Bains to illegally enter Switzerland; a Swiss border guard intercepting, then releasing them; internment in a Swiss refugee camp; her placement in an orphanage; living in Geneva with her parents; their return to Paris after the war; emigration to the United States in 1954; and marriage.

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