Johanna C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Johanna C., who was born in Munich in 1919 of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. She tells of her well-to-do, nonreligious upbringing in Schwabing; her relationship with her parents and their attitudes toward Judaism; and her own feelings about not having a Jewish education. She describes prejudice within her school and the rise of Nazism as coinciding with her growing awareness of being Jewish; her attitude towards Hitler; and the conflict with her parents over her desire to emigrate. She was arrested twice and describes her feelings about those incidents as well as her formal conversion to Judaism following her second arrest. She also tells of the process of her emigration in 1938 and settlement in the United States, including her marriage and divorce, and her graduate and postgraduate education.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- C., Johanna, -- 1919-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Children of interfaith marriage.
- Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish.
- Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish -- Converts from Christianity.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Identification (Religion)
Places
- Germany.
- Munich (Germany)
- Schwabing (Munich, Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat