Rahela R. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rahela R., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1926. She recalls her mother's death in 1934; cordial relations with non-Jews; participating in the Zionist group Akiba; learning Eastern Orthodoxy ritual and prayer in school, which later helped her pose as a non-Jew; German invasion; visiting her brother and two uncles at Topovske Šupe; her brother's warning that they should hide; watching her brother being taken away; his murder, with three hundred other Jews, in reprisal for a German who was killed; hiding in Arandelovac; obtaining false papers; receiving travel documents from her father's friend, an army general; moving to Vrnjačka Banja; living with Serbian families, one of which was in the Serbian collaborationist regime; liberation; reunion with her other brother; learning her father had been shot; returning to Belgrade; difficulties reclaiming family property; and disclosing her Jewish identity to the collaborationist family with whom she had lived. Ms. R. discusses testifying on behalf of a Chetnik who saved her; losing her faith in God when her brother was killed; and only five of her family of sixty-four surviving. She shows photographs.

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