Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Gerta T., who was born in 1916 in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Austria), the younger of two children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending school; working as a salesperson; her brother attending medical school; her engagement; the Anschluss; antisemitic harassment; her brother's illegal emigration to France with his wife and her parents, with assistance from a SS doctor he knew; her parents unsuccessful attempt to join him; her fiancé obtaining an English visa for her; emigration to London in August 1938; working as a governess in Plymouth and Bristol; sending money to her parents; incarceration in Dursley as an enemy alien when the war began in 1939; release after an examination; marriage in 1942 to a Czech émigré; her daughter's birth; her husband joining the United States Army; fear of going to underground shelters during the Blitzkrieg; and emigration to the United States after the war. Ms. T. notes her parents' deportation to Minsk in May 1942 (they did not survive); locating her brother through the Red Cross after the war; and two visits to Vienna.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986
- Interview Date
- November 8, 1986.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
London (England)
Plymouth (England)
Bristol (England)
Dursley (England) - Cite As
- Gerta T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-904). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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 (55 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Aid by non-Jews.
Noncitizens Evacuation and relocation.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Austria. Vienna (Austria) London (England) Plymouth (England) Bristol (England) Dursley (England) London (England)--History--Bombardment, 1940-1945. Oral histories (document genres) T., Gerta,--1916- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294454
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294454
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