Robert S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2228) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,

Videotape testimony of Robert S., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1939. He recalls his older brother telling him about the German invasion; traveling with his family to Dunkerque; returning to Antwerp with German soldiers; and his parents' arrest in September 1942 (he and his brother were not home). He recalls staying with his babysitter; traveling with his brother to his aunt's house in Brussels; their placement with a non-Jewish family for a year and a half, then on a rural farm without his brother; liberation by Allied troops; placement in a monastery orphanage; attending church; briefly living with his aunt in Brussels; staying with a non-Jewish couple; emigration to the United States with his brother in 1946; and living with his aunt's family until his marriage in 1961. Mr. S shows photographs, letters and documents, and notes that his parents were deported to Auschwitz in September 1942.