Gertrude S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Gertrude S., who was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1914, the oldest of two sisters. Ms. S. recounts her father serving as a physician in World War I; vacations in Bad Kreuznach; seeing Hitler speak at a rally; exclusion from university attendence because she was Jewish; being sent to live with relatives in Amsterdam in 1932; becoming engaged to a German refugee; returning to Germany for her wedding in December; her father and grandfather losing their ability to earn a living due to anti-Jewish laws; her parents and sister joining her in Amsterdam; her son's birth; her father's stroke after Kristallnacht; emigrating to the United States in 1939; receiving letters from her parents; learning her parents and sister had been deported to Westerbork; not hearing from them; learning after the war through HIAS that her mother and sister had survived; her daughter's birth; and arranging for her mother and sister to join her.

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