Irene W. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recounts her parents' divorce; attending public school; her close relationship with her grandparents; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; her father's emigration to the Netherlands; his marriage to a non-Jew; attending boarding schools in Belgium and the Netherlands; realizing they had to leave after Kristallnacht; obtaining papers for the United States with assistance from a stranger in Boston who shared their last name; emigration via the Netherlands in July 1939; assistance from HIAS; and futile attempts to obtain papers for her grandmother (she did not survive). Ms. S. discusses her father's survival in hiding; the deaths of relatives; and visiting the Jewish school in Berlin in 1970.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- W., Irene, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
Subjects
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Postwar experiences.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Belgium.
- Netherlands.
- Germany.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat