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Marianne S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1488) interviewed by Susan W. Needle and Myra Katz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1488

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Marianne S., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1933 and raised in Steinsfurt, where all the Jews were her relatives. She recalls her uncle's emigration to St. Louis in 1936; her father's reluctance to leave; the wanton destruction of their home on Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and imprisonment in Dachau; the remaining Jews moving into her family's house for safety; receiving food from a non-Jewish tradesman; her father's release from Dachau; harassment by officials as they traveled through Germany in 1940 to leave for the United States; Italian soldiers harassing Jews on the ship in Genoa harbor; and arrival in St. Louis. Mrs. S. notes the family received reparations; her visit to Steinsfurt in 1956; and shows photographs and the family tree, given to her son by the mayor of Steinsfurt.
Author/Creator: S., Marianne, 1933-
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
Interview Date: April 4, 1990.
Locale: Germany
Mannheim (Germany)
Steinsfurt (Germany)
Cite As: Marianne S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1488). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Needle, Susan W., interviewer.
Katz, Myra, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (39 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Postwar experiences.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Families. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Germany. Mannheim (Germany) Steinsfurt (Germany) Kristallnacht, 1938. Oral histories (document genres) S., Marianne,--1933-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1089238
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:32:00
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