Helga F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Helga F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. She recounts increasing anti-Jewish actions; expulsion from public school in 1936; attending Jewish school; visiting relatives in Sweden who warned them to emigrate; her sense that Kristallnacht marked the end of her childhood; fleeing to Paris with her parents; her father's incarceration as an enemy alien prior to German invasion; his return after the invasion; his death from a heart attack in 1942; anti-Jewish regulations; being rounded-up with her mother in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver; her mother's release due to an influential friend; communicating with her mother with assistance from Ve?lodrome d'hiver employees; release before the final deportation; hiding with her mother under false papers from August 1943 until liberation in August 1944; working for the Joint; marriage to an American soldier; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. F. discusses her scars: loss of childhood; rootlessness; and recovering her identity. She notes that her children know she is a survivor, but she does not want to burden them with the details.

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