- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Henry and Lottie M. Ms. M. was born in Dresden, Germany in 1921 to an affluent, assimilated family. She recounts her mother's death when she was one; her maternal grandmother living with them; her father's remarriage; her parents sheltering her from politics; vacations in Prague; expulsion from school in 1938; her father's and brother's arrests during Kristallnacht; her stepmother obtaining emigration documents for them through contacts in England; their release once they proved they would emigrate; her own emigration with assistance from the Quakers; living with a family as a mother's helper; her parents and siblings emigrating; marriage in 1942 to Henry, her boyfriend from Dresden; German bombardments; and working for the Foreign Office. Henry M. recalls meeting Lottie in 1933; total isolation in a non-Jewish school; his friendship with Lottie giving him the fortitude to remain in school; working in Leipzig; returning to Dresden after Kristallnacht; arranging his family's emigration to Cuba; his refusal to go in order to stay with Lottie; emigration to London; incarceration as an enemy alien; volunteering for the British army; marriage in 1942; the Blitzkrieg; serving in Belgium and Germany; working as an interpreter; and he and Lottie emigrating to the United States in 1946. They discuss their continuing antipathy toward Germany and Germans; Lottie's nightmares during a trip to Germany in 1978; and details of prewar life.
- Author/Creator
- M., Henry, 1919-2004.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- August 14, 1990.
- Locale
- Great Britain
Germany
Dresden (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
London (England)
Leipzig (Germany)
- Cite As
- Henry and Lottie M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1556). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Alpert, Michael, interviewer.
