Hilde G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hilde G., who was born in Boppard, Germany in 1926. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending a Catholic school until 1936, when the nuns could no longer guarantee her safety; her older sister attending school in Cologne; her parents' decision to send her to England; her mother accompanying her to Spain (her father wept at their departure in Cologne); living with a Jewish family in Nottingham; attending private school; working for her foster parents from age fourteen due to the labor shortage caused by the war; hearing from her parents in 1941 after a two year silence, and learning they had arrived in the United States; joining them in 1944; marriage in 1947; establishing a family; and visits to England and Germany in 1969. Ms. G. show photographs.
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
- G., Hilde, -- 1926-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Foster parents.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Jews -- Migrations.
Places
- Boppard (Germany)
- Germany.
- Nottingham (England)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat