Trudy T. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Trudy T., who was born in Heilbronn, Germany in 1924. She recalls her family's assimilated life; attending public school; anti-Jewish regulations, including the expulsion of Jews from schools; attending a Jewish school; her older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1938; her own emigration on a HIAS children's transport to the United States in October 1938; living with a foster family in St. Louis; fear for her family in Germany when Kristallnacht occurred; learning of her brother's emigration to England on a children's transport; the importance of the emotional support of a HIAS social worker; her parents' arrival in 1941; being classified as an enemy alien when the United States entered the war; attending college; marriage in 1944; and her brother's arrival in 1945. Mrs. T. discusses her continuing friendships with German school friends and shows a photograph of the students in her Jewish school, half of whom did not survive.

2 videocassettes