Rachel A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2873) interviewed by Lilian Sicular,

Videotape testimony of Rachel A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls celebrating Easter and Christmas; moving to Kiel in 1926; antisemitic abuse in school; moving to Frankfurt in 1931; Nazi demonstrations; leaving school in March 1933; her parents changing her name to the more "Aryan"-sounding "Dora"; traveling to Switzerland in April 1933; moving to Manchester; assistance from the Jewish community, her first contact with other Jews; attending nursing school in London in 1938; the school's evacuation to Wales in September 1940; and emigration to the United States in 1940. Mrs. A. describes her education, marriages, family and career. She discusses her father's book, "The Price of liberty: A German on Contemporary Britain" and notes that her Jewish identity was first defined by antisemitism in Germany.