Fanny S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Fanny S., who was born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1924, the oldest of three daughters. She recounts her father earned the Iron Cross in World War I; his orthodoxy; attending public school; visiting relatives in Dresden; antisemitic restrictions after 1933, including expulsion from school; attending camp in Leiden in 1937; confiscation of her father's business; her father's severe beating; his emigration to the United States in 1938; forced relocation; arrests and destruction on Kristallnacht; emigration with her mother and two sisters via Hamburg to the United States in March 1939; and marriage to an American man in 1945. Ms. S. discusses the importance of her father's Iron Cross to their survival and her continuing hostility toward Germany and the German language. She shows photographs and reads excerpts from letters and her diary.
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. This testimony or excerpts from it which mention or contain the names of any other real or fictitious persons cannot be used.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Fanny, -- 1924-
Subjects
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
Places
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Leiden (Netherlands)
- Germany.
- Dresden (Germany)
- Braunschweig (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat