- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ursula K. who was born in Bremen, Germany in 1927. She recalls her family's move to Budapest shortly after her birth; happy times as part of the German community; a decline in her family's economic circumstances leading to their return to Germany in 1933; Jewish holiday observances; antisemitism in school; her mother's wish to emigrate and her father's refusal; and her sister's emigration to the United States in September 1938. Mrs. K. recounts their arrest on Kristallnacht; release with the other women and children; her father's detainment (she never saw him again); Nazi destruction of Jewish property; expulsion from school; futile attempts to secure her father's release; leaving from Hamburg with her brother on a children's transport to England; separation from her brother; difficulties living with families in Hull; moving to a girls' hostel where she was happier; leaving school at fourteen; secretarial training; working in Harrogate and London; and joining her sister in the United States in 1946. She discusses her sense of isolation in England and how she has come to terms with her losses.
- Author/Creator
- K., Ursula, 1927-
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989
- Interview Date
- February 19, 1989.
- Locale
- Germany
Bremen (Germany)
Budapest (Hungary)
Harrogate (England)
Hull (England)
London (England)
- Cite As
- Ursula K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1341). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Jacobson, Bob, interviewer.
London, Ilene, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Dorothy L. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-1494), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
