Andre B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3522) [videorecording] / interviewed by Charlene Fell, May 8, 1996.

Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1996.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 59 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Blitz, Andre. Interview 5448. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

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Videotape testimony of Andre B., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1937. He recounts moving to Naarden in 1939; attending pre-school; playing with his sister; his father bringing him and his sister to another family "for a few days" in 1942 (he never saw his parents again); moving to another family in Amsterdam six weeks later; never going outdoors and hiding in a closet for long periods; difficult relations with the family's children; being taken to Cornjum on a transport with other children in 1944 after payments for them stopped; a Jewish worker smuggling them out; placement with a poor family who were very kind to them; liberation by Canadian troops; being returned to Amsterdam; living with an uncle and aunt who took over their parents' business; being abused both physically and emotionally for seven years; learning he was Jewish through a school friend; his bar mitzvah; his sister running away; living in a Jewish orphanage to age eighteen; emigration to Canada in 1979; marriage to a survivor; and his daughter's death. Mr. B. discusses his lost childhood; his sense of Jewish identity; and positive changes resulting from attending the Hidden Child Conference. He shows photographs.

June 01, 2002

Andre B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3522). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Andre B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3522). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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