Molly B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Molly B., who was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1920. She recounts her father's service in World War I; her family's German patriotism; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; changes in 1933 when Hitler came to power; a mandatory "racial science" course; the pain of being snubbed by a former friend; her parents' loss of their citizenship because they were naturalized; attempts to emigrate; attending vocational school near Lake Constance, then learning dressmaking in Heidelberg and Berlin to prepare for emigration; loss of the family business due to anti-Jewish laws; receiving help from nuns; her emigration to the United States in September 1938; learning of her father's one week incarceration in Dachau after Kristallnacht; obtaining papers for her mother and brother to come to the United States; learning of her father's death in Gurs in December 1940; and her brother's death in the United States military. Mrs. B. recalls becoming a nurse; marriage; having two children; and visits to Heidelberg. She discusses their assimilated life in Heidelberg and shows family photographs and documents.

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