Annie K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Annie K., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1936. She recalls her maternal grandfather living with them; German invasion in May 1940; her family's aborted escape attempt to France, ending in De Panne; returning home; anti-Jewish measures, including wearing the star; her father's flight to France; beating of her mother and grandfather by Germans; being smuggled to France with her mother and friends; reunion with her father; their internment in Rivesaltes; her release as a child; being hidden in a children's home in Vendine for eight months; her parents arranging her "kidnapping"; reunion with them in Italian-occupied Nice; often changing their false papers; German occupation; fleeing to Aix-les-Bains; her father's arrest; her mother obtaining "Catholic" papers from the Resistance; attending school and Mass; her mother's Resistance activities, including hiding other Jews; liberation by United States troops; returning to Antwerp; reunion with her father, who survived Auschwitz; his debilitated condition; her brother's birth; resuming her education; their six-month stay in the United States; attending university in Geneva; marriage in 1960; emigration to the United States in 1963; the births of three children; completing her doctorate; and her career. Ms. K. notes her grandfather was beaten to death after they left Antwerp; her fear of dogs resulting from her experiences; and the influence of her experience on raising her children. She shows photographs.
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.
Rules and Conventions
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Annie, -- 1936-
Corporate Bodies
- Rivesaltes (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Italian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- False papers.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Orphanages -- France.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Nice (France)
- Aix-les-Bains (France)
- Geneva (Switzerland)
- Vendine (France)
- Belgium.
- De Panne (Belgium)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat