- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rabbi Nathan N., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1934, the oldest of three children. He recounts his parents' immigration from Germany in 1926; his mother's parents immigration from Germany in 1939; his father helping place German-Jewish children in Belgian homes; German invasion in 1940; his father's arrest and internment in France, where he earned payment for visas to the United States; and his mother's refusal to leave her parents behind. Rabbi N. recounts anti-Jewish restrictions; his mother removing their yellow stars and not registering them as Jews; assistance from a non-Jewish friend in liquidating the family business, obtaining false papers and renting a house; living as non-Jews externally while maintaining Jewish practices at home; sympathetic townspeople who did not betray the family; not attending school because he "looked Jewish"; his mother's relative ease since she had blond hair and blue eyes; liberation in 1944; return to their former home; and emigration to the United States to reunite with his father, who had arrived via Cuba in 1945.
- Author/Creator
- N., Nathan, 1934-
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1991
- Interview Date
- January 20, 1991.
- Locale
- Belgium
Brussels (Belgium)
- Cite As
- Rabbi Nathan N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1632). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Jacobson, Bob, interviewer.
