Hedy W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1210) interviewed by Samuel Kenner and Louise Goodman,
Videotape testimony of Hedy W., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1905. She recalls studying piano at the conservatory; marriage in 1928; the births of two sons; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish regulations; her husband's imprisonment in Dachau for a year; transferring funds to Switzerland; obtaining Yugoslavian papers (his parents were Yugoslavs) resulting in her husband's release; traveling via Koprivnica to Zagreb, where they remained for two years; German invasion; fleeing to Split; returning to Zagreb; obtaining Bolivian papers; crossing from Sušak to Abbazia (now Opatija) in Italian territory; the kindness of the Italian people; leaving for Cuba via Portugal; the kindness of the Cubans; and emigration to the United States in 1946. She tells the stories of other family members.
- Published
- Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1988
- Interview Date
- September 1, 1988.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Koprivnica (Croatia)
Zagreb (Croatia)
Split (Croatia)
Sušak (Rijeka, Croatia)
Opatija (Primorsko-goranska županija, Croatia)
Cuba
Italy - Language
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English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Hedy W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1210). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1090372
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