Manfred S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Manfred S., who was born in Josbach, Germany in 1924. He describes his family's long history there; his father's death in 1929; cordial relations with non-Jews until the rise of Nazism; his mother arranging his emigration to the United States in 1938 and his brother's to Palestine six months later; traveling by himself from Hamburg to New York; living with his aunt in Chicago; corresponding with his mother until 1941; being drafted into the United States Army in March 1943; participating in the liberation of Holland and the Battle of the Bulge; translating documents for signing the armistice; liberating Wo?bbelin; indescribable conditions; organizing local Germans to bury hundreds of dead; trying to save those still living; serving as a military governor; learning his mother and sister had been deported; returning to the United States in October 1945; his brother's death in Palestine; and a recent trip to Stutthof where he learned the details of his mother's and sister's deaths.

2 videocassettes