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Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2456) interviewed by Nat Arkin,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2456

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Sigrid Jean S., who was born in Dinkelsbühl, Germany in 1928. She recalls expulsion from school in 1937; moving to Frankfurt; her father's internment in Buchenwald; her oldest brother's emigration to Australia; her other brother's deportation (she never saw him again); deportation with her parents to Terezín; making a gift for her parents on Rosh ha-Shanah in 1943; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; digging tank traps in Kurzbach; the death march to Gross Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen, then Bergen-Belsen; and liberation in May 1945 by British troops. She describes recuperating in Helsingborg, Sweden; hearing from her parents; reunion with them in the United States in December 1945; and marriage in 1948.
Author/Creator: S., Sigrid Jean, 1928-
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1992
Interview Date: August 12, 1992.
Locale: Dinkelsbühl (Germany)
Germany
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Helsingborg (Sweden)
Cite As: Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2456). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Arkin, Nat, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (41 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Child survivors.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Parent and child. Forced labor. Dinkelsbühl (Germany) Germany. Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Helsingborg (Sweden) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. S., Sigrid Jean,--1928- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

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/1096684
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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