LEADER 05011cpd a2200661 a 4500001 4286614 005 20180604133148.0 008 980731s1992 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233162 035 HVT-2177 035 |9FLW0734YL 035 4286614 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702154685 090 |bHVT-2177 100 1 W., Ilse, |d1915- 245 10 Ilse W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2177) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, |fSeptember 17, 1992. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bA Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, |c1992. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 53 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Ilse W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915. She recounts her father's service in World War I; her parents' prosperous businesses; celebrating Jewish holidays with her large and close extended family; destruction of their synagogue on Kristallnacht; arrest and immediate release; her brother's emigration to Palestine and her sister's to England in 1939; obtaining visas for Shanghai; traveling to Genoa to board a ship; being prevented from leaving by the outbreak of war; marriage; internment with her mother in San Fele and Potenza (men were interned elsewhere); her son's birth; her husband's death from appendicitis; hiding from the Germans in Bella, with assistance from the local Italians; liberation by the Jewish brigade of the British army; leaving for the United States from Aversa with her son and parents in 1944 under a special war refugee act; being escorted by Ruth Gruber (she wrote a book about the experience); living in Fort Ontario refugee camp; Eleanor Roosevelt's visit; a concert by Isaac Stern; release in January 1946; and two subsequent marriages. Mrs. W. discusses the friendliness and generosity of Italians toward them. She shows photographs and documents. 500 Related publication: Haven : the unknown story of 1,000 World War II refugees / Ruth Gruber. -- New York : Coward-McCann, c1983. 524 Ilse W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2177). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e3 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |bBetacam SP restoration master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 W., Ilse, |d1915- 600 10 Gruber, Ruth, |d1911-2016. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50032983 600 10 Roosevelt, Eleanor, |d1884-1962. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79144645 600 10 Stern, Isaac, |d1920-2001. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83070050 610 20 Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88193289 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Kristallnacht, 1938. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034487 650 0 Jews |xMigrations. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070426 650 0 Jewish refugees. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112308 650 0 Mothers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087539 650 0 Mothers and daughters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087538 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, Italian. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113881 651 0 Germany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125931 651 0 Berlin (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034972 651 0 Genoa (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83141238 651 0 Potenza (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85137128 651 0 Bella (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88261455 651 0 San Fele (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86029422 651 0 Aversa (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82056494 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Crystal Night, 1938. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Husband |xDeath. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 700 1 Blinderman, Joni-Sue, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4665679 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2177) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/6d5p843v79 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/