- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ann J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926 to an affluent family. She recounts having two half siblings from her father's first marriage and a younger brother; moving to Stuttgart in 1932; her father losing his job due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Vienna, her father's native city; rejection from public school due to anti-Jewish laws; the Anschluss in March 1938; several expulsions from their apartments; her older brother's arrest on Kristallnacht; assistance from a former non-Jewish employee; her older brother's release after two weeks; learning he had been whipped; his emigration to England and her older sister's to Prague; preparing for a kindertransport to England with her younger brother; obtaining papers for the United States prior to their scheduled departure; their emigration with their parents to the United States in April 1939; assistance from relatives in the U.S.; her parents' difficulties adjusting; and becoming a citizen when she married at age nineteen. Ms. J. discusses constant fear prior to emigration; only learning of the death camps after liberation; protecting her children from her experiences; and visits to Germany and Austria.
- Author/Creator
- J., Ann, 1926-
- Published
- Kansas City, Kansas : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, 1994
- Interview Date
- November 2, 1994.
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Stuttgart (Germany)
Vienna (Austria)
Austria
- Cite As
- Ann J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2835). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kirsch, Ramona R. W., interviewer.
Lanese, Mary Grace, interviewer.
