Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1923, one of four children. She recalls her family's affluence; antisemitic street violence; attending a Jewish school; the non-Jewish caretaker protecting their house during Kristallnacht; her father and older brother leaving for France; her younger siblings being sent to Switzerland; traveling alone to Paris; her father bribing a French official to get her mother to Paris; German invasion; traveling to Vichy; an official allowing them to live in Bandol until 1942; attending a Jewish camp; being hidden by a miner in Collobrie?res (he was honored by Yad Vashem); receiving false papers from Alexander Rotenberg, a camp friend; plans to illegally enter Switzerland with Rotenberg; traveling to Le Buet near the border; assistance from French non-Jews crossing the border to Finhaut; traveling to Zurich; living with a relative and in refugee camps; correspondence from her parents who were hidden in southern France; meeting her future husband, a Romanian refugee; and joining her parents in Paris in 1945. She discusses working with her husband as puppeteers; assistance from Marc Chagall; emigration to Argentina in 1952; Rotenberg's book about their experiences; becoming a psychologist; and entering political activities. She shows photographs.

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