Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2456) interviewed by Nat Arkin,
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.
- 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) - Language
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English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2456). 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/1096684
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