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Anne C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-811) interviewed by Irving Gadol and Heidi Hample,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-811

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Anne C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1919, the middle of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth group; removal from school in 1934 due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school; her parents' emigration to Luxemburg in 1935; attending a boarding school in Munich; emigration to London in 1937; seeing one brother on his way to the United States; visiting her parents in France; her other brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; marriage; living in Scotland; her husband's death in 1946 (he was killed while working at the Nuremberg trials); learning her parents had been killed; emigration to the United States in May 1947; marriage to a German-Jew; the births of two daughters; and her second husband's death in 1971.
Author/Creator: C., Anne, 1919-
Published: Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986
Interview Date: May 24, 1986.
Locale: Germany
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Munich (Germany)
London (England)
Scotland
Cite As: Anne C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-811). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Hample Heidi, interviewer.
Gadol, Irving, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 42 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
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. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Germany. Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Munich (Germany) London (England) Scotland. Oral histories (document genres) C., Anne,--1919-

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/4294292
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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