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Irene W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2458) interviewed by Ann Solov Walker,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2458

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recounts her parents' divorce; attending public school; her close relationship with her grandparents; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; her father's emigration to the Netherlands; his marriage to a non-Jew; attending boarding schools in Belgium and the Netherlands; realizing they had to leave after Kristallnacht; obtaining papers for the United States with assistance from a stranger in Boston who shared their last name; emigration via the Netherlands in July 1939; assistance from HIAS; and futile attempts to obtain papers for her grandmother (she did not survive). Ms. S. discusses her father's survival in hiding; the deaths of relatives; and visiting the Jewish school in Berlin in 1970.
Author/Creator: W., Irene, 1921-
Published: Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1993
Interview Date: June 10, 1993.
Locale: Berlin (Germany)
Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
Cite As: Irene W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2458), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Walker, Ann Solov, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (58 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Crystal Night, 1938.
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. Kristallnacht, 1938. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Berlin (Germany) Germany. Netherlands. Belgium. Oral histories (document genres) W., Irene,--1921- HIAS (Agency)

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/4296816
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296816

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