Sara T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Sara T., who was born in Middelburg, Netherlands in 1922. She recalls her comfortable home; marriage in 1942; German invasion; declining to hide with her family in order to stay with her husband; his deportation to Vught with his father; her deportation from Zutphen to Vught with her mother-in-law in April 1943; working for Philips; assistance from the non-Jewish Philips workers; sharing food with her husband; avoiding deportation east with assistance from the Philips administration; deportation to Birkenau in June 1944; transfer to Reichenbach, then Sportschule (Reichenbach) with assistance from Philips; working for Telefunken; the death march to Trautenau in February 1945; transfer to Porta Westfalica in March, then to Beendorf in April; liberation from Eidelstedt; Red Cross transport to Denmark, then Malmo?, Sweden; recuperating from tuberculosis in Lidingo?; reunion with her parents in Amsterdam; returning to Middelburg; learning her husband and his family had perished; becoming a nurse; remarriage; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States in 1990. Mrs. T. discusses the importance of humor and friendship to her survival.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- T., Sara, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Vught (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Beendorf (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Philips Business Communications (Firm : Hilversam, Netherlands)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Telefunken G.m.b.H.
- Porta Westfalica (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Mutual aid.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Husband -- Death.
- Husband and wife.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camps -- Humor -- Psychological aspects.
- Friendship.
Places
- Trutnov (Czech Republic)
- Zutphen (Netherlands)
- LidingoĚ (Sweden)
- MalmoĚ (Sweden)
- Denmark.
- Middelburg (Netherlands)
- Netherlands.
- Trautenau (Czechoslovakia)
- Reichenbach (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Eidelstedt (Hamburg, Germany : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat