- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rita S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1929, the youngest of four children. She recounts the flags changing in 1933; her father's strong German patriotism; her older sister's emigration to Palestine that year; a close extended family; attending a Jewish school; being beaten on the street by Hitler Youth; her oldest brother's emigration to Buenos Aires in 1935; her father and brother hiding when Polish Jews were rounded up for deportation; a warning from non-Jewish neighbors prior to Kristallnacht; another neighbor saving their store from vandalism; deciding to leave (her brother had sent papers for them from Buenos Aires); departing via Marseille in December 1938; economic difficulties since they were forced to leave all their assets behind; helping her parents in their candy store; her mother's death in 1947; and her father's in 1952. Ms. S. discusses Jewish society in Buenos Aires and her emigration to the United States after thirty years in Argentina. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- S., Rita, 1929-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- June 27, 1990.
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Marseille (France)
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Cite As
- Rita S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1550). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kalifowicz-Waletsky, Rayzl, interviewer.
Rudenberg, Lucia, interviewer.
