Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sigrid Jean S., who was born in Dinkelsbu?hl, Germany in 1928. She recalls expulsion from school in 1937; moving to Frankfurt; her father's internment in Buchenwald; her oldest brother's emigration to Australia; her other brother's deportation (she never saw him again); deportation with her parents to Terezi?n; making a gift for her parents on Rosh ha-Shanah in 1943; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; digging tank traps in Kurzbach; the death march to Gross Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen, then Bergen-Belsen; and liberation in May 1945 by British troops. She describes recuperating in Helsingborg, Sweden; hearing from her parents; reunion with them in the United States in December 1945; and marriage in 1948.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Sigrid Jean, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Death marches.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Parent and child.
- Forced labor.
Places
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Germany.
- DinkelsbuĚhl (Germany)
- Kurzbach (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Helsingborg (Sweden)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat