Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Judith B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923, the oldest of four children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment and restrictions; apprenticing as a dressmaker; her parents obtaining affidavits from relatives in the United States; her father's three-month incarceration in Sachsenhausen beginning in June 1938; her mother registering the four children for a Kindertransport; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor immediately after Kristallnacht; she and her siblings traveling to Stockholm on a Kindertransport in 1939; living with a foster family; completing a course to be an infant nurse, then working; corresponding with her parents (her father had emigrated to the United States, her mother remained in Berlin); learning her mother had escaped to Budapest and lived as a Catholic during the war; bringing her mother to Stockholm in November 1945; emigration with her mother and siblings to the United States in 1946 to join her father; marriage in 1948; and the births of her children. Ms. B. discusses remaining orthodox; completing graduate education; and visiting Germany on a Fulbright scholarship. She shows photographs.
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1995
- Interview Date
- November 17, 1995.
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Stockholm (Sweden) - Cite As
- Judith B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3190). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 17 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Nuremberg laws.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. Kristallnacht, 1938. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Kindertransports (Rescue operations) Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Foster parents. Berlin (Germany) Germany. Stockholm (Sweden) Oral histories (document genres) B., Judith,--1923-
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4297171
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4297171
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