Jacques L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2530) [videorecording] / interviewed by Gabriele Schiff, December 15, 1992.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 18 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Leibman, Jacques. Interview 2137. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Jacques L., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1931, the older of two sons. He recounts attending public schools in Anderlect; fighting back against occasional antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures, including expulsion from school in 1942; his parents receiving assistance from a Nazi sympathizer to find hiding places for him and his brother, first in Antwerp, then in Charleroi; their illness due to malnutrition; his mother seeking assistance from a Catholic priest; with his help, he and his brother living as Catholics in separate households in Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert; his mother receiving false papers from the Resistance; her monthly visits; liberation by United States troops; being reclaimed by his parents; his brother's reluctance to return to their biological parents; finishing school; military service; his family's emigration to the United States in 1952; joining them in 1953; marriage in 1954; and the births of three children. Mr. L. discusses his father's survival in hiding; the killing of most of his large extended family in the Holocaust; and he and his wife sharing their experiences with their children.

June 01, 2002

Jacques L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2530). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Jacques L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2530). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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