Liselotte K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Liselotte K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918. She describes her affluent childhood; a close, extended family; antisemitism in school; educating herself about Judaism; erosion of relationships with non-Jews after the Nuremberg laws; expulsion from school; vacationing in Germany; working in a department store; nurses training at a Jewish hospital; viewing the destruction after Kristallnacht; applying through Bloomsbury House to emigrate to England; moving to Midlands, England in 1939; learning of her parents' deportation to Theresienstadt and their subsequent death; and emigrating to Canada. Mrs. K. discusses her naivete concerning the pending danger prior to her emigration.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Liselotte, -- 1918-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Nuremberg laws.
- Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Citizenship -- Germany.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
Places
- Midlands (England)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat