Evelyn R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Evelyn R., who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1930. She recounts her maternal family's distinguished rabbinical ancestry; her father's service in World War I; her mother's successful business; her father's reluctance to leave Germany after Hitler's election in 1933, believing his status as a veteran protected them; loss of the business and expulsion from school following the Nuremberg laws; attending a Jewish school; selling family valuables; destruction during Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald; her mother purchasing tickets to Shanghai; her father's release in December; the ship journey to Shanghai in February 1939; her grandmother's arrival a year later; attending a Jewish school; her father's illness; his death in March 1941; ghettoization in Hongkew in May 1943; her grandmother's death; harsh conditions; assistance from the Joint; liberation by United States troops in 1945; emigration to the United States in 1947 with assistance from the Joint; and receiving reparations from Germany. Ms. R. discusses public speaking about her experiences; her book, "Ghetto Shanghai"; and the deaths of about eighty relatives in the Holocaust. She shows photographs and documents.

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