- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Charlotte K., who was born in Osnabrück, Germany in 1909. She recalls the family move to Dortmund in 1911; food shortages after World War I; attending a boy's school in order to matriculate at university; membership in a nationalistic youth group; obtaining a Ph.D. at the University of Berlin; dissertation research in England; working one year in the United States; studying French in Paris in 1932; her close friendship with Hannah Arendt; observing the Nazi anti-Jewish boycott; her father's anti-Nazi sentiments; marriage to a Jew in Paris; her son's birth in November 1939; obtaining Polish documents in 1940, fearing internment because she was German; receiving visas for Uruguay; visiting her husband in an internment camp in Marseille; his release; obtaining papers to emigrate to Uruguay; traveling to Spain and Portugal; and the ship journey to Uruguay. Mrs. K. notes they were unaware of the Holocaust until after the war and her belief that all Germans were not collaborators in genocide.
- Author/Creator
- K., Charlotte, 1909-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1997
- Interview Date
- February 25, 1997.
- Locale
- Germany
Osnabrück (Germany)
Dortmund (Germany)
Paris (France)
Marseille (France)
Montevideo (Uruguay)
- Cite As
- Charlotte K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2151). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
