Leo G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Leo G., who was born in Vukovar, Yugoslavia in 1930. He documents the beliefs and activities of his father, a fifth generation cantor; his deeply religious family environment; his father's concern about the rise of Nazism; and the family's consequent relocation from Opava, Czechoslovakia to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1934. He describes the well-integrated Jewish community and the irrelevance of religious affiliation to the Danish national identity; German occupation in 1940; Danish insistence on control of domestic affairs (including the right to protect all citizens); and minor anti-Nazi activities. He recounts the Nazi reaction to Danish resistance; internment of Danish leftists; the Aktions of August-October 1943; his family's hiding; escaping by boat with the aid of non-Jewish Danes to Malmo?; and spending the war in Go?teborg, Sweden. Mr. G., a professor of psychology, discusses the historical, cultural and political factors which explain the rescue of Denmark's Jews, and the role of this event in cementing a determined Danish resistance movement.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)