LEADER 03996cpd a2200529 a 4500001 4295794 005 20180604133158.0 008 980731s1991 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702235009 035 HVT-1611 035 |9FLX0063YL 035 4295794 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702157991 090 |bHVT-1611 100 1 R., Louis, |d1921- 245 10 Louis R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1611) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Mark Jacobs and Diane M. Plotkin, |fMarch 12, 1991. 260 Dallas, Tex. : |bMemorial Center for Holocaust Studies, |c1991. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 47 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Louis R., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1921, one of two brothers. He recounts his parents' tailor shop; his mother's orthodoxy; attending public and Hebrew school; working from age fourteen; German invasion in 1940; his brother's deportation because he would not leave his wife (they did not survive); feigning illness to avoid deportation; hiding on a farm, then with his father's friend; obtaining false papers with assistance from the underground; working in a bakery; learning his parents were in hiding; obtaining documents to work for the Germans on the Atlantic wall; joining his parents in hiding with a non-Jewish couple (there were a total of eighteen); Germans searching the house; liberation in May 1945; and emigration to the United States in 1957. Mr. R. discusses confronting Abraham Asscher and David Cohen, heads of the Judenrat, about the deportations; the murders of many relatives and children in the Holocaust; many non-Jews who helped; and pervasive painful memories. He shows documents and photographs. 524 Louis R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1611). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e4 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |bBetacam SP restoration master; |bBetacam SP restoration submaster; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 R., Louis, |d1921- 600 10 Asscher, Abraham, |d1880-1955. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80084355 600 10 Cohen, David, |d1882-1967. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82276417 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zNetherlands. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006000914 650 0 Fathers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455 650 0 Mothers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087539 650 0 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 651 0 Netherlands. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78085423 651 0 Amsterdam (Netherlands) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095634 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 700 1 Plotkin, Diane M., |d1942- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97110401 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4675221 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1611) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/3775t3g08m 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/