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Susi R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1652) interviewed by Susanne Glaser and Marjorie Gordon,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1652

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Susi R., who was born in Germany in 1929 and grew up in Eisenach. She recalls implementation of anti-Jewish restrictions; her parents' close friendship with a non-Jewish woman; Kristallnacht; their friend smuggling her father to Brussels; living with her mother in Cologne, then Aachen; reuniting with her father in Brussels in January 1939; fleeing to Paris after the German invasion; her father's incarceration in Le Vernet (the last time she heard of him); and returning to Belgium. She recounts her mother arranging for her to live in a convent in Louvain in the summer of 1942; visits with her mother; arrival of United States troops in September 1944; moving to Hamburg in 1945 with her mother and her mother's second husband; visiting their friend in Eisenach; emigration to the United States with her family in 1949; and receiving confirmation in 1980 of her father's death in Auschwitz.
Author/Creator: R., Susi, 1929-
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1991
Interview Date: March 3, 1991.
Locale: Germany
Eisenach (Germany)
Cologne (Germany)
Aachen (Germany)
Brussels (Belgium)
Louvain (Belgium)
Paris (France)
Cite As: Susi R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1652). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Glaser, Susanne, interviewer.
Gordon, Marjorie, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 50 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
Child survivors.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Hiding.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Convents. Mothers and daughters. Jewish refugees. Jews--Migrations. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Germany. Eisenach (Germany) Cologne (Germany) Aachen (Germany) Brussels (Belgium) Louvain (Belgium) Paris (France) Kristallnacht, 1938. Oral histories (document genres) R., Susi,--1929-

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/1091698
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:32:00
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