Susan B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Susan B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929. She recounts being raised as a Catholic (her mother was Lutheran and her father Jewish); performing at the Vienna State Theater; the Anschluss; her father's harassment by a Hitler Youth; his incarceration in Dachau; obtaining British visas with assistance from her half-sister; traveling with her mother to London in November 1938; living in a foster home with a Jewish girl from Breslau; her mother working as a domestic; a wonderful relationship with her foster mother and sister; her father's arrival; visits from her parents; the outbreak of war; evacuation to St. Albans; living with a priest's family for several months; emigration with her parents to the United States in February 1940; her marriages; and her career. Ms. B. discusses the deaths of many relatives in the Holocaust, including her grandmother; seldom sharing her experiences, although her children knew some; and recently speaking about her experiences as a result of joining a Holocaust survivors 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
- B., Susan, -- 1929-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Children of interfaith marriage.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Foster family.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- London (England)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- St. Albans (England)
- Austria.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat.