Alexandra L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Alexandra L., who was born in Danzig Free State (presently Gdan?sk, Poland) in 1928. She recalls her family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; her maternal grandmother living with them; antisemitic harassment beginning in 1937; her father's arrest; looting of his store; his non-Jewish employees providing assistance; expulsion from school; not understanding sudden rejection by non-Jewish playmates; attending a Jewish school; a beating by Hitler Youth; destruction of their synagogue; her father contacting a cousin in the United States; her brother's birth in July 1938; receiving United States visas; her mother's grief at having to leave her mother behind (she did not survive); emigration to the United States from Gdynia in March 1939; assistance from HIAS; marriage in 1950; her sons' births in 1954 and 1959; and working as a teacher. Ms. L. discusses her and her parents' difficulty trusting others, and her work for human rights. She shows photographs.

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