- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Fredrika L., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1917. She recalls attending pharmacy school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage; paying large sums in 1942 for false papers to travel to Switzerland via Belgium; the Gestapo arresting her husband en route to Switzerland (she never saw him again), but releasing her; returning to warn her parents not to take that train (they had already left and were detained and deported); hiding in many places, often with her brother; a Belgian family who took them in; contemplating suicide, but deciding against it in the hope that her parents were alive; liberation by United States troops; learning her parents and sister had been killed; returning to the Netherlands; emigrating to the United States in 1947; and marriage to a German Jew. Mrs. L. discusses continuing contacts with the Belgian family that saved her and sharing her experiences with her daughter and grandchildren. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- L., Fredrika, 1917-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- October 30, 1991.
- Locale
- Netherlands
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Belgium
- Cite As
- Fredrika L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1875). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Pery, Jaschael, interviewer.
