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Claudine K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1971) interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Geoffrey H. Hartman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1971

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Claudine K., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1944. She relates her parents' experience hiding with assistance from a non-Jew; her father's and grandparents' arrest; their deportation to Auschwitz; a German officer helping her pregnant mother; her father's postwar return from Auschwitz; and her mother's constant sadness. Mrs. K. describes the psychological impact of her father's stories and the effect of her parents' experiences on the family's complex relations. She attributes her decision to move to America to her need to find her own coping mechanism.
Author/Creator: K., Claudine, 1944-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
Interview Date: February 22, 1993.
Locale: Belgium
Brussels (Belgium)
Cite As: Claudine K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1971). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Hartman, Geoffrey H., interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub, and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 19 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Mothers and daughters. Children of Holocaust survivors. Families. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Identification (Religion) Belgium. Brussels (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) K., Claudine,--1944-

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/1090380
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:32:00
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