Friedel M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Friedel M., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in approximately 1921. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; being raised by their maid; her father's death when she was six; spending Jewish holidays with grandparents in Bierstadt; attending a Jewish school; her mother's remarriage in 1933; antisemitic harassment, restrictions, and boycotts; fearing arrest during her brother's bar mitzvah in 1935, since gatherings were prohibited; his emigration to the United States to join her mother's sister; obtaining U.S. visas in Stuttgart; emigration with her mother and stepfather in 1937; her stepfather's death in 1956; and her mother's remarriage. Ms. M. discusses pervasive fear after Hitler seized power; visiting Germany twice in the 1980s; and sharing her experiences with her children.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- M., Friedel, -- 1921?-
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Jews -- Migration.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Bar mitzvah.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Germany.
- Bierstadt (Wiesbaden, Germany)
- Stuttgart (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat