Gerta T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Gerta T., who was born in 1916 in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Austria), the younger of two children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending school; working as a salesperson; her brother attending medical school; her engagement; the Anschluss; antisemitic harassment; her brother's illegal emigration to France with his wife and her parents, with assistance from a SS doctor he knew; her parents unsuccessful attempt to join him; her fiance? obtaining an English visa for her; emigration to London in August 1938; working as a governess in Plymouth and Bristol; sending money to her parents; incarceration in Dursley as an enemy alien when the war began in 1939; release after an examination; marriage in 1942 to a Czech e?migre?; her daughter's birth; her husband joining the United States Army; fear of going to underground shelters during the Blitzkrieg; and emigration to the United States after the war. Ms. T. notes her parents' deportation to Minsk in May 1942 (they did not survive); locating her brother through the Red Cross after the war; and two visits to Vienna.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- T., Gerta, -- 1916-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Noncitizens -- Evacuation and relocation.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Jewish refugees.
Places
- Plymouth (England)
- Bristol (England)
- Dursley (England)
- London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1945.
- Austria.
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- London (England)
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat