Alfred B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Alfred B., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1922 to a Jewish father and Dutch Reformed mother. He recalls religion played no part in their lives; his brother's birth in 1937; German occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; receiving a notice to report to a central location; his father bringing him to a friend who was in the underground (his father had some protection from his mixed marriage); traveling with her friend to Rotterdam; obtaining false papers; hiding in twenty-two places during the war including Rotterdam, Leiden, Delft, and Amsterdam; learning his parents had been caught for hiding Jews; his mother throwing a note to her sister from the deportation train to retrieve his younger brother (she did and he survived); his final hiding place with his aunt in Amsterdam; marriage to a non-Jew he had met through the resistance; and their emigration to the United States. Mr. B. discusses constant terror while hiding; producing false documents and listening to British radio to stay sane; learning his parents had perished in Auschwitz; wondering if he would have risked his life to hide Jews even though he believes the Dutch did not do enough; and sharing his story with his sons.

2 videocassettes