Rosa M. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rosa M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. She describes her parents' Polish background; her father's Austrian military service in World War I; childhood visits to relatives in Poland; hostility from local Nazis after the Anschluss; incarceration with her parents, then separation from them; learning her parents were in the same jail; kindness from Austrian prisoners; release after three months; finding their apartment ransacked; returning to the apartment after her parents' release; obtaining a United States visa because she was an Austrian citizen; joining a Zionist group; her father's arrest on Kristallnacht; her parents' encouragement to go to the United States; and her departure (she never saw her parents again). Mrs. M. recalls living in New York with her aunt and uncle; working and attending high school; her parents' unsuccesful attempts to leave Austria; marriage in 1948 and learning her parents had been deported to the ?o?dz? ghetto. She discusses the importance of conveying Jewish traditions to future generations and shows family photographs.

2 videocassettes