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Ruth S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1695) interviewed by Sharon Gerber,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1695

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Sinsheim, Germany in 1933. She recalls Kristallnacht; her father's imprisonment in Dachau; her imprisonment, with her family, in Ladenburg in October 1940; her grandfather's emigration to the United States; deportation via Mannheim to Gurs with her parents and sister; being smuggled out with her sister by OSE (they never saw their parents again); living in an OSE orphanage, then with a non-Jewish family in Faverges-de-la-Tour as Christians using false names; their return to the OSE orphanage when neighbors grew suspicious; living as Jews again; attending public school; communication from their grandfather; emigrating from Marseille to the United States on September 6, 1946; and support from HIAS after relatives rejected them. Mrs. S. discusses many years of denying her experience and her parents' deaths; not revealing her experiences to her children; attending a survivors' gathering in Israel where she learned details about her parents' deportation to Auschwitz; becoming active in Holocaust education; and returning to Germany and France with her family.
    Author/Creator
    S., Ruth, 1933-
    Published
    Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1991
    Interview Date
    March 20, 1991.
    Locale
    Germany
    Sinsheim (Germany)
    Ladenburg (Germany)
    Mannheim (Germany)
    Faverges-de-la-Tour (France)
    Marseille (France)
    Cite As
    Ruth S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1695). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Gerber, Sharon, interviewer.
    Notes
    Associated material: Ruth S. and Lea W. Holocaust testimony [with sister] (HVT-1799), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Associated material: Lea W. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-1961), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    Physical Details

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

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Crystal Night, 1938.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar effects.
    Hiding.
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4284115
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
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