- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Alice M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1928. She recollects a strong Jewish influence in her childhood; the enthusiastic welcome for German troops in March 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; an uncle in Venezuela who arranged for their family to go to Trinidad; SS men coming to their home in the middle of the night on Kristallnacht, kicking her father down the stairs and arresting him; her mother arranging for his release; their departure on November 20th; and her confusion and fright. Mrs. M. tells of travel to Amsterdam, then to Trinidad; help received from the small Jewish community; her father's arrest as a potential German spy when war broke out; incarceration with her mother and sister on another island for nine months; release when they received papers for the United States; arrival in New York in November 1940; being welcomed by family; a positive adjustment; her subsequent life; appreciation of the United States; and her good fortune in being able to leave Europe.
- Author/Creator
- M., Alice, 1928-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1986
- Interview Date
- November 15, 1986.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Trinidad
- Cite As
- Alice M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-790). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale Universiy Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Forman, Miriam, interviewer.
Landau, Emanuel, interviewer.
