Suzanne W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Suzanne W., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1919. She recalls expulsion from public school due to antisemitism; attending a private school; leaving in 1938 to join an aunt in the United States; efforts to bring over her family; her older brother joining her around 1940; her younger brother living with an aunt in Belgium, then returning to Mannheim immediately after their parents were deported to Gurs (he went to an orphanage in Frankfurt); receiving some correspondence from her parents; losing contact during the war; learning after the war that her parents had been deported to Auschwitz (she never discovered her younger brother's fate); marriage; and visiting her home in Germany and her aunt in Belgium with her husband and children. Ms. W. discusses her Belgian aunt's continuing trauma over her brother's death, and the unreality of her parents' and brother's "disappearances".
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
- W., Suzanne, -- 1919-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Germany.
- Mannheim (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat