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Christine C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-830) interviewed by Hedy Rutman and Tina Rauch,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-830

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Christine C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1940. She recounts escaping with her mother from the ghetto in 1942; living in a village using false papers; her mother receiving warnings from a German soldier and a Polish nobleman prior to German searches; living with a very kind family in another village; her mother's return to Warsaw after the war; reluctance to join her mother due to fondness for their rescuers; her mother's remarriage; fondness for her new father and finally feeling like she had a family; learning she was Jewish at age seven (she was raised as a Catholic); resentment at being Jewish due to pervasive antisemitism; their emigration to Israel when she was seventeen; finally affirming her Jewish identity; and moving to Paris, then the United States. Mrs. C. discusses pervasive fears resulting from her experiences; worrying excessively about her own family; and her inability to relax.
Author/Creator: C., Christine, 1940-
Published: San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1986
Interview Date: December 7, 1986.
Locale: Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Israel
France
Cite As: Christine C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-830). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Rutman, Hedy, interviewer.
Rauch, Tina, interviewer.

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 (1 hr., 21 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Escapes. Mothers and daughters. Identification (Religion) Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Israel. France. Oral histories (document genres) C., Christine,--1940-

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/4282591
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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