Jacques L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Jacques L., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1931, the older of two sons. He recounts attending public schools in Anderlect; fighting back against occasional antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures, including expulsion from school in 1942; his parents receiving assistance from a Nazi sympathizer to find hiding places for him and his brother, first in Antwerp, then in Charleroi; their illness due to malnutrition; his mother seeking assistance from a Catholic priest; with his help, he and his brother living as Catholics in separate households in Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert; his mother receiving false papers from the Resistance; her monthly visits; liberation by United States troops; being reclaimed by his parents; his brother's reluctance to return to their biological parents; finishing school; military service; his family's emigration to the United States in 1952; joining them in 1953; marriage in 1954; and the births of three children. Mr. L. discusses his father's survival in hiding; the killing of most of his large extended family in the Holocaust; and he and his wife sharing their experiences with their children.

2 videocassettes