Ursula R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ursula R., a non-Jew, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919. She recounts that the children of Jewish neighbors were her best friends; her parents' arrest for anti-Nazi activities; their release one year later; studying art; helping Jewish friends obtain false papers; the outbreak of war; collecting ration cards for Jews in hiding; Allied bombings; observing round-ups; sharing rations with Ukrainian slave laborers; destruction of their home in a bombing; her father's military draft; moving with her mother to the Saarland, then by herself to Wu?rzburg, then a small village; liberation by United States troops; moving to Bad Kissingen; working for the Red Cross; engagement to an American-Jewish soldier; emigrating to the United States in 1948; and their marriage. Ms. R. notes she was very lucky not to be arrested or killed by bombs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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
- R., Ursula, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- False papers.
- Rescuers.
- Anti-Nazi movement.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- WuĚrzburg (Germany)
- Saarland (Germany)
- Bad Kissingen (Germany)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat