Baruch H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Baruch H., who was born in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1924, one of four children. He recounts his happy childhood; his father's secularism and Zionism; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's illness; his father's military draft as a veterinarian in 1940; German invasion in May; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school, his father's dismissal from his job, confiscation of valuables and compulsory wearing of the yellow star; his father's decision to hide the family in different locations in summer 1942; entrusting valuables to non-Jewish friends; a priest arranging for him to hide with a Catholic farm family; praying and attending church with them; obtaining false papers as a non-Jew from the underground; his father's visit; a warning of denouncement; leaving with his father; hiding with non-Jews in several locations, including an impoverished farm in Almelo for six months; fleeing when the farmer's wife tried to seduce him; briefly staying with his older sister, a nurse who lived as non-Jew; a last visit with his mother (she died in a sanatorium); and moving to a farm in Lunteren in fall 1943.

8 videocassettes