Esther M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2343)

Videotape testimony of Esther M., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930. She recalls anti-Jewish regulations after the war began, including expulsion from school and wearing the star; hearing of concentration camps; her parents hiding with a non-Jewish business colleague and hiding her and her...

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Main Author: M., Esther, 1930-
Other Authors: Zeiler, Rivie (Interviewer)
Format: Kit
Language:English
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1991
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