Edith G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-571) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Linda Pasternak,

Videotape testimony of Edith G., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1905 and adopted. She recalls living in Copenhagen; returning to Germany; her close family; marriage in 1928; and the births of her children. She describes her husband's arrest in 1935; his twenty-month incarceration; their move to Holland; German bombing of Rotterdam; moving to Zeist; not having to wear the yellow star, though her husband and children had to, because a Dutch policeman did not classify her as a Jew due to lack of information about her biological parents; arranging several hiding places for her children through the underground; her arrest, encounter with Ferdinand aus der Fünten, head of the Gestapo, and release; extreme hunger in 1944-1945; liberation; learning of her husband's death in Auschwitz; a short stay in Denmark; marriage to an older man and his death; emigration to the United States with her daughter; and her son's marriage in Holland. Mrs. G. discusses their close family relationship; her reluctance to discuss the Holocaust because no one can understand the experience and the inadequacy of words to describe it; her daughter's refusal to discuss the topic even with her own children; and her own fear that Jews are not safe anyplace.