Sybilla F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Sybilla F., who was born in Deventer, Netherlands in 1933, the youngest of four children. She recalls their affluence; the influx of relatives from Germany after Kristallnacht; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish restriction including expulsion from school; non-Jewish teachers instructing her at home in defiance of German orders; the trauma of wearing the yellow star; her brother's deportation for forced labor; non-Jewish friends warning them of an impending round-up; hiding overnight with a neighbor; traveling to Amsterdam using false papers; her family, including a great aunt, hiding with a Catholic family connected to the underground; and liberation by the Allied troops. Mrs. F. discusses the kindness of the family which hid them; learning her brother and most other relatives were killed; working in England; marriage in 1954 to a man who had been on a kinder transport; and not sharing her story with her children until they were grown.

2 videocassettes