Peppi D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Peppi D., who was born in Apeldoorn, Holland, in approximately 1935. She recounts attending public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws resulting in her transfer to a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; her father hiding with non-Jews during a round-up; his deportation; round-up with her mother and twin sister to a Catholic school; transfer to Arnhem; deportation to Westerbork in October 1942; reunion with her father; hospitalization; remaining in Westerbork due to her aunt's non-Jewish husband paying the Germans; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in February 1944; train evacuation in April 1945; liberation by Soviet troops; living in a German home in Tro?bitz; traveling to the American sector; returning home; emigration to the United States in 1956; and marriage to a Catholic in the Netherlands. Ms. D. shows photographs.
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
- D., Peppi, -- 1935?-
Corporate Bodies
- Westerbork (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Sisters.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
Places
- Arnhem (Netherlands)
- TroĚbitz (Germany)
- Apeldoorn (Netherlands)
- Netherlands.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat