Henri K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Henri K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1916. He recalls growing up in Strasbourg, France; becoming a French citizen and a mechanical engineer in 1937; a visit with his sister in New York during officer training on the MS Lafayette; army enlistment; posting to Lebanon and Syria; defeat by Germany; and demobilization in Marseille in December 1940. Mr. K. remembers joining his family in Pe?rigueux; becoming a surveyor in Lyon; anti-Jewish regulations; arrest while attempting to escape to Spain with a brother and his sister's children; a one month jail term; learning of round-ups (raffles) and deportations of Jews; posing as non-Jews and working as a surveyor with his brother for about two years in southern France; activities in the Maquis in Aubenas and elsewhere; and liberation. He tells of working in Paris; emigration to Canada, then the United States; marriage; his son's birth; his career; and his dismay when people like Barbie claim they did not know what was happening to Jews during the war.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)