Louis H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Louis H., who was born in Flehingen, Germany in 1918. He recalls his family's all-embracing Jewish life prior to Hitler; expulsion from school in 1933 due to anti-Jewish laws; his father's death in 1936; emigrating to Antwerp in 1936, then to the United States in March 1937 to join his sister; bringing his brother and mother to the States; enlistment in the U.S. Army in 1942; serving in France, Holland, and Belgium; participating in the Battle of the Bulge; concerns about being mistaken for a German due to his accent; combat in Germany; entering Nordhausen; shock at the condition of the prisoners and piles of corpses; forcing locals to bury the dead (they claimed ignorance of the camp); supplying food for the prisoners; meeting Soviet troops at the Elbe River; and returning to the United States after Germany surrendered. He shows a ritual spice box received from a prisoner in Germany.

2 videocassettes