Maks B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Maks B., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in approximately 1920. He recalls the successful family store; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; his bar mitzvah; his father hiding when Nazis came for him; a family meeting at which many, at his father's urging, decided to leave for Palestine (most who remained were killed); traveling to Palestine via Italy; his mother's death five years later; his father's remarriage; intending to visit relatives in Europe in 1939; leaving the ship to return to Tel Aviv upon learning policies against Jews in Palestine; joining the Irgun; working in the diamond industry; starting his own business; traveling to the United States on behalf of Irgun in March 1948; speaking at a large meeting of the American League to Free Palestine; returning after Israeli statehood had been declared; emigration to the United States; marriage; and traveling with his wife and children to Frankfurt in 1958. Mr. B. discusses experiences with Menachem Begin, Ben Hecht, Leonard Bernstein, and Marc Chagall.

6 videocassettes