Beatrice R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Beatrice R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recalls her affluent home; the Anschluss; her father's deportation to Dachau, then Buchenwald, in 1938; sending him packages; her mother liquidating their assets; purchasing her father's passage to Shanghai to obtain his release; his emigration to Shanghai (her mother followed); her mother placing her on a children's transport to Paris; pleasant conditions in a castle; German invasion; transfer to another home; receiving false papers; transfer to a girls' religious home; deportations; her breakdown after many children were deported; a former teacher arranging to smuggle a group to Switzerland; interrogation in Geneva about the smugglers; living with a foster family; meeting her future husband; recovering her health while living with his family for a year; moving to Lugano to prepare for illegal immigration to Palestine; learning about concentration camps from survivors; illegal entry into Palestine in 1946; living on a kibbutz, then in Tel Aviv; reunion with her parents in San Francisco in 1951; living in Canada, New York, then Antwerp; and emigration to Israel twenty years later. She shows photographs and memorabilia.

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