Mimi O. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Mimi O., who was born in approximately 1926. Ms. O. recalls growing up in Maria?nske? La?zne?, Czechoslovakia; her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth organization; destruction of Jewish stores during Kristallnacht; traveling with her parents to Prague the next day; living in Koli?n; German invasion; a non-Jew deceiving Germans who wanted to arrest Ms. O.'s father; traveling on a children's transport to England; living on a Zionist organization farm; receiving letters from her family through the Red Cross; the group moving to a castle in Wales; learning her parents and brother had emigrated to Palestine in January 1940; German bombings; joining her uncle in London; marriage to an American soldier in Cheltenham; her husband's deployment to France for a year; visiting her family in Palestine after the war; and emigration to the United States. Ms. O. discusses her sense of never feeling quite at home in the United States.

2 videocassettes