Anne D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Anne D., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935. She recounts attending boarding school when her mother became ill in 1938; her parents' baptisms; not knowing she was Jewish; illegal emigration to Lucerne, Switzerland in 1939, then to Casablanca (they had relatives there); regularly attending church; exposure to antisemitism (she did not learn she was Jewish until she was ten); marriage to an American soldier in 1954; emigration to Seattle; the births of two children; divorce; remarriage; living in France, where her third child was born, then Seattle; and emigration to Canada (her parents lived there). Ms. D. discusses meeting her Hungarian grandmother in 1956; telling her husband and children she was Jewish; and belonging to a child survivor group.
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
- D., Anne, -- 1935-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Identification (Religion)
- Christian converts from Judaism.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Family.
- Jews -- Migrations.
Places
- Lucerne (Switzerland)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Hungary.
- France.
- Seattle (Wash.)
- Casablanca (Morocco)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat