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Ilse S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1380) interviewed by Lucille B. Ritvo and Dana L. Kline,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1380

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Ilse S., who was born in Tempelhof, Germany in 1924. She recounts her assimilated family background; expulsion from public schools; joining the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist Youth Movement; anti-Jewish laws; seeing broken glass the morning after Kristallnacht; her father's decision to leave after a legal prohibition against Jews practicing medicine was passed; emigration with her family from Hamburg to Havana via Amsterdam in 1939; adjusting to life in Cuba; emigration to New York in 1940; joining Hashomer Hatzair; attending school; working at Hadassah; and her marriage to a Holocaust survivor. Mrs. S. discusses her husband's suicide; reluctance to share her experiences with her daughters, although her husband compelled them to study the Holocaust; and her trip to Berlin in 1988, which motivated her to start teaching and lecturing about the Holocaust. She shows photographs and documents.
Author/Creator: S., Ilse, 1924-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1990
Interview Date: August 20, 1990.
Locale: Germany
Tempelhof (Berlin, Germany)
Havana (Cuba)
Cite As: Ilse S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1380). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Ritvo, Lucille B.,
Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Notes: Additional written materials are available in the repository.

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 (3 hr., 51 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Zionist organizations.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Survivor-child relations.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Germany. Tempelhof (Berlin, Germany) Kristallnacht, 1938. Havana (Cuba) Oral histories (document genres) S., Ilse,--1924- World Hashomer Hatzair. Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.

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/1096675
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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