Jeanne A. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jeanne A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. She recalls living in Laufenselden; moving when she was in kindergarten; her family's emigration to Scheveningen, Holland (her grandparents lived there) due to her father's sense that they should "get out"; moving to Paris in 1938; the outbreak of war in September 1939; her father's detention as an "enemy alien"; his release and brief service in the French military; German invasion; her father's internment at a camp near Lyon; moving with her mother to that area; her father's escape; joining him in Lyon; returning to Paris to obtain United States visas; traveling to Marseille; breaking her leg which prevented them from emigrating to the United States; obtaining false papers; traveling to Casablanca; emigrating to Cuba via Jamaica on a Portuguese ship; meeting her uncle on board (he had been in Theresienstadt); interrogation by British officials in Jamaica; living in Havana's large, cosmopolitan Jewish community; emigrating to the United States in 1946; marriage; and moving to India. Mrs. A. discusses visiting Germany in 1954 and 1980; her growing sense of Jewish identity; and belief that her family's survival was predestined. She shows photographs and documents.

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