Yehuda A. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Yehuda A., who was born in Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's liberal orthodoxy; attending school; antisemitic harassment and violence after Hitler's ascent to power; emigration with his family to Palestine in 1935; enlisting in the British army in 1941; smuggling arms and refugees to Palestine after his discharge; joining the Haganah in 1946, then the Palmah? in 1947; serving in the Israel-Arab War; meeting the poet Haim Gouri in the military; beginning to write poetry; marriage in 1949; and writing a novel resulting from his visit to Wu?rzburg and thoughts about the Holocaust. Mr. A. discusses his initial indifference to survivor-immigrant accounts; his gradual absorption of the scale and horror of the Holocaust; his poetry; a recent visit with his children to Wu?rzburg; artistic representation of trauma including films; and his sense of "Jewish historical memory."

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)