- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Yvonne S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929 to a single mother. She remembers a close relationship with her grandparents; membership in the girls' Nazi youth group, Bund Deutsher Mädel; harassment of Jews in school; her family's friendship with a Jewish neighbor (they were deported when she was not home and their apartment sealed, then reassigned to Germans); her mother verbally declaring her an Aryan at school; working as a housekeeper, then with her mother at a Siemens factory in Marienfelde; secretly assisting French and Soviet prisoner of war forced laborers; the arrival of Soviet troops; and settling in East Berlin. Ms. S. notes learning of Nazi mass murders only after the war; her mother informing her after the war that her father had been Jewish and was killed in Auschwitz; and her few relatives who were Nazis. Ms. S. discusses her leftist politics.
- Author/Creator
- S., Yvonne, 1929-
- Published
- Potsdam, Germany : Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, 1995
- Interview Date
- November 3, 1995.
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Marienfelde (Berlin, Germany)
- Cite As
- Yvonne S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3407). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Gelbin, Cathy S., interviewer.
Pankow, Edgar, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in German.
