- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1905. She recalls moving to Antwerp with her family; her mother's death; attending Hebrew school; marriage in 1927; her son's birth in 1928; moving to Luxembourg where her husband was a rabbi; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Paris with her husband and three children; traveling by train through Spain to the Portuguese border; futile attempts to enter Portugal with assistance from the Joint; returning to France; internment with her family in Bayonne; her son's bar mitzvah in a local synagogue; traveling with her family to Marseille; her husband's internment in a labor camp; his escape with her older son to Switzerland; hiding with her two younger children in a suburb of Marseille; obtaining false papers; traveling with her children to Grenoble; and escaping to Switzerland in 1943. Mrs. W. describes her reunion with her husband; living in three refugee camps until 1945; her husband's return to Luxembourg and emigration to the United States; living with her children in Antwerp; and emigration to the United States in 1948.
- Author/Creator
- W., Sarah, 1905-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
- Interview Date
- November 6, 1989.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Antwerp (Belgium)
Luxembourg
Paris (France)
Bayonne (France)
Marseille (France)
Switzerland
Grenoble (France)
- Cite As
- Sarah W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1293). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.
Prince, Robert, interviewer.
