- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Roger B., a Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1921. He recounts attending school; working as an accountant; contact with Jewish refugees fleeing to the United States; German invasion; military draft; service in France; capture by Germans; escaping with others; returning to Brussels; his father's participation in the underground; notification of his draft for labor in Germany; hiding; observing a killing of Jews from his hiding place; remaining in hiding despite obtaining false papers; liberation by British troops; joining a Belgian section of the British army; assignments in Germany and Belgium; demobilization in 1946; marriage; and his son's birth. Mr. B. discusses many friends and relatives who assisted Jews; visiting Dachau in the 1950s; and reunions with fellow soldiers. He shows photographs and drawings.
- Author/Creator
- B., Roger, 1921-
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 2001
- Interview Date
- September 10 and November 12, 2001.
- Locale
- Belgium
Brussels (Belgium)
- Cite As
- Roger B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4283). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- De Becker, Jean-Marie, interviewer.
Balzano, Guiseppe, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Copies ofl written materials and drawings are available in the repository.
