Gys L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Gys L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her childhood in a wealthy family; her father's decision to move the family to Paris in 1933; education in French schools and the Sorbonne; internment of male German Jews (including her father and brother) in late 1939; and meeting her future husband when he called with news of her brother. She recounts detention with her mother in Gurs; primitive camp conditions; release during the German invasion in 1940; her marriage in Marseille; and her in-laws' escape to the United States (her father-in-law was the anti-Nazi journalist Georg Bernhard). Mrs. L. describes hiding with the aid of a Resistance member; escaping with her husband and brother to Spain; capture and imprisonment at Miranda de Ebro and Madrid as undocumented aliens; her in-laws' role in their release and emigration to the United States; and the deaths of her father-in-law and infant daughter in 1944. She relates her father's deportation to Majdanek; her mother's survival in hiding; and sponsoring her mother's and brother's emigration.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)