Anneliese R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Anneliese R., who was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1910. Ms. R. tells of her close, non-observant family; successive moves between 1914 and 1921; studying languages and history of art at Berlin University; switching to archaeology in 1932 after returning from a summer in Italy; studies at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome after Hitler's accession to power; receiving her doctorate in 1936; and training as a nurse in Geneva when she could not find a teaching position. She recalls her roommate's arrest before Hitler's visit to Rome in 1938; having to stay with her sister in Turin during the visit; registering at the American consulate in Milan; laws expelling all foreign Jews from Italy; joining her father in America in early 1939 (her mother arrived a month later); and efforts to rescue her sister who was interned in Italy in 1940. She relates adjustment to American life; becoming a secretary and later co-researcher with Rene? Spitz; receiving a doctorate in psychology in 1957; and her research in eye contact, which brings together her interest and training in both psychology and archaeology.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)