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Sibylle H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1272) interviewed by Peter Merry and Christa Marden,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1272

Videotape testimony of Sibylle H., a non-Jew, who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She recalls living in a wealthy area with Jewish families; moving to Wannsee at age eleven; her family's anti-Hitler sentiments; her father's death in 1933; her only Jewish classmate's emigration to England; attending the 1936 Olympics; her mother's death; working as a hospital nurse; and dismay when her friend (her guardian's daughter) was pleased by the Kristallnacht destruction. Mrs. H. recounts a former mental hospital where the patients disappeared; rumors of their suspicious deaths; marriage in 1941; her husband's anti-Nazi sentiments; anti-Jewish restrictions; attempting to give food to Jews; watching Jews being forced into boxcars; discussions with friends about resistance to Hitler; learning of concentration camps; and moving to Oberstdorf, Germany and Mittelberg, Austria with her child in 1943. She discusses her husband's military service and contemporary German attitudes.

Author/Creator
H., Sibylle, 1920-
Published
Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1988
Interview Date
March 4, 1988.
Locale
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Wannsee (Berlin, Germany)
Oberstdorf (Germany)
Mittelberg (Bregenz, Austria)
Language
English
Copies
2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Sibylle H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1272). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1065444
Record last modified: 2018-06-04 13:24:00
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