- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Salomea G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1933, the youngest of three sisters. She recalls attending a Jewish kindergarten; being terrified in the streets; her parents' separation in 1936; her father's institutionalization for mental illness; her mother seeking sponsorship for emigration from her brother in Australia; her oldest sister's emigration in 1938; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald after release from the asylum; her mother obtaining his release providing he left for Shanghai; his four-week stay with them during which she felt safe and surrounded by love; emigration to Melbourne; involvement in communist youth groups; learning of the camps in 1945 and that most of their European family had been killed; trying to return to communist Germany; entering in 1954 after spying for the GDR; gradual disillusionment and recognition of antisemitism; and expulsion from the Communist Party in 1968. Ms. G. discusses continuing fears resulting from her childhood; overcoming them after writing a book; Jewish organizational life in Germany; and continuing hostility to her immediate family. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- G., Salomea, 1932-
- Published
- Potsdam, Germany : Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, 1996
- Interview Date
- January 8 and May 30, 1996.
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Melbourne (Vic.)
Germany (East)
- Cite As
- Salomea G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3414). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Geffers, Eva, interviewer.
Stutz-Bischitzky, Vera, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in German.
Related publication: Shayndl and Salomea / Salomea Genin ; translated by Brigitte Goldstein ; with an afterword by Wolfgang Benz. -- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c1997.
