Lea A. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lea A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929. She recounts that her father was Jewish and her mother Christian; their affluence; her father leaving for Paris in January 1933; she and her mother joining him in May; their impoverishment; moving to Saint-Ouen in 1935; her parents opening a restaurant in Paris; attending school; a Jewish organization sending her for summers to a Jewish family in Zurich, then to another in Thun for several years; her parents managing the Bund canteen in Paris; German occupation; feeling excluded when she was told she was not Jewish and did not have to wear the star; her father's arrest and release shortly thereafter; raids on the canteen by German and French police; their landlord helping her father hide the Bund library; leaving school in 1942 to study theater; accompanying her mother when she delivered food and false papers to people in hiding; liberation by United States troops; disillusionment with the Bund; marriage; emigration to Israel in 1948; living on a kibbutz; her husband's death in 1955; and remarriage in 1958. Ms. A. discusses her mother's resistance activities; the importance of her father's optimism to his survival; and sharing her story with her children.

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