Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1931. He recalls attending public school; studying with his father, a rabbi; his grandfather's arrival from Austria in 1938; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with his family to France; living at a refugee shelter in Saint-Pourc?ain-sur-Sioule; moving to Vichy; living at a hotel which housed OSE offices; moving to Nice in August 1940; his grandfather's death; hiding after foreign Jews were required to report to authorities; living openly during Italian occupation; German occupation in September 1943; he and his brother being placed in hiding by OSE (his parents and sister were hiding elsewhere); visiting his parents; transfer to a Catholic boarding school; moving to Grasse, then a pension in Villard-de-Lans; corresponding with his parents; liberation by United States troops; reunion with his parents in Nice; his bar mitzvah; emigration to the United States in 1952; and becoming a rabbi and professor of French literature and Jewish studies. Mr. S. discusses writing about the use of autobiography in Holocaust studies and the many non-Jews who saved them. He shows photographs.

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