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Peppi D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-513) interviewed by Sue Danford,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-513

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Peppi D., who was born in Apeldoorn, Holland, in approximately 1935. She recounts attending public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws resulting in her transfer to a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment; her father hiding with non-Jews during a round-up; his deportation; round-up with her mother and twin sister to a Catholic school; transfer to Arnhem; deportation to Westerbork in October 1942; reunion with her father; hospitalization; remaining in Westerbork due to her aunt's non-Jewish husband paying the Germans; deportation to Bergen-Belsen in February 1944; train evacuation in April 1945; liberation by Soviet troops; living in a German home in Tröbitz; traveling to the American sector; returning home; emigration to the United States in 1956; and marriage to a Catholic in the Netherlands. Ms. D. shows photographs.
Author/Creator: D., Peppi, 1935?-
Published: Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1985
Interview Date: January 31, 1985.
Locale: Netherlands
Apeldoorn (Netherlands)
Arnhem (Netherlands)
Tröbitz (Germany)
Cite As: Peppi D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-513). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Danford, Sue, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 29 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Sisters. Mothers and daughters. Fathers and daughters. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Netherlands. Apeldoorn (Netherlands) Arnhem (Netherlands) Tröbitz (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) D., Peppi,--1935?- Westerbork (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4293913
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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