Sunday, December 13, 2009

split in half in a recurring dream

I've long used the video archive of Holocaust testimony at Yale (housed in Sterling Library there in New Haven). For years a sampling of testimonies has been available for borrowing - first on VHS, then on DVD. Now the folks at Yale (Joanne Rudof and her staff) have made a selection of these testimonies available on YouTube. I urge readers of this blog to watch Paul D. - to hear about his recurring dream; and Helen K. to hear about her brother dying "in mein arms" on the train to Treblinka; and the remarkable Menachem S., who passed as a non-Jewish street waif for years and literally didn't recognize his parents when reunited with them in 1945.

Above at left: Paul D.