Moussa A. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Moussa A., who was born in Damascus, Syria in 1910. He describes childhood in the Jewish section; his mother's death when he was twelve; being raised by his religious grandparents; attending primary school at the Alliance israe?lite universelle, then a Catholic secondary school; denial of a scholarship to the Ecole de Chartres in France because he was Jewish; obtaining Syrian government funding to study in Paris provided he returned to teach in Syria; discovering his love of theater while in Paris; teaching in Damascus despite his desire to remain in France; becoming a colleague of Jean Gaulmier; the painful departure in 1933 from his father (he never saw him again); studying at the Sorbonne with Gustave Cohen, with whom he later lived; writing for "Le Droit de vivre," the LICA newspaper; an evening with Bernard Lecache, head of LICA; employment as an actor with a traveling company; meeting Antoine de Saint-Exupe?ry in New York; and returning to France in 1938.

2 videocassettes