Renate K. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Renate K., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1926. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending German school; cordial relations with non-Jews; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; former friends ignoring her; anti-Jewish restrictions; her violin teacher discontinuing her lessons; a woman in their building, whose son was a Nazi official, offering her lessons despite the prohibition; Kristallnacht; her father's and grandfather's deportation to Buchenwald; their release several weeks later; her father's ruined health; expulsion from school; obtaining visas; and emigration to the United States with her brother and parents in April 1939. Ms. K. notes the death of many relatives, including her maternal grandfather who died in Buchenwald; her maternal grandmother's emigration to South America in December 1941, then her joining them in the United States; and visiting Theresienstadt in 1990, where her paternal grandmother had perished.

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