- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Susan Q., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands to a prominent Sephardic, rabbinic family with a long Dutch history. She recalls a large extended family; German invasion; learning dressmaking, then nursing; working with her sisters at a Jewish mental hospital; her parents' deportation to Westerbork in 1942; their release when a friend provided false papers for them; hiding during round-ups; her older sister's deportation to Auschwitz (she did not return); being forced to assist at the castrations of Jewish men married to non-Jews; receiving notice for deportation; her parents arranging for her and her sister to be hidden separately; learning her parents were deported after she left (they did not return); hiding in Bussum; receiving false papers; working for a baroness in Baarn; being treated as a family member; liberation by Canadian troops; returning to Amsterdam; reunion with her sister; nursing training in Leiden and Oxford; working in London; marriage; visiting her sister in Israel; divorce; meeting her second husband in Canada; emigration to Canada; and her charitable and organizational activities. She discusses a belated reaction to many wartime losses when her second husband died. Ms. Q. shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- Q., Susan, 1923-
- Published
- Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1990
- Interview Date
- May 9, 1990.
- Locale
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Netherlands
Bussum (Netherlands)
Baarn (Netherlands)
Leiden (Netherlands)
Oxford (England)
London (England)
- Cite As
- Susan Q. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3090). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Forrai, Ernest, interviewer.
