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Hildegard S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2858) interviewed by Sarah Hirschfield and Raymond Kaplan,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2858

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Hildegard S., who was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 1924. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; a Kindertransport to the Netherlands in 1933; homesickness; returning home in 1936; destruction of their home and business on Kristallnacht; her father's and brother's arrest; their release; her mother smuggling her and her sister to the Netherlands; living in orphanages, ending in Driebergen; German invasion; evacuation to Amsterdam; living with a Dutch family; her foster parents arranging for a time to remove her name from deportation lists; deportation to Barneveld, then Westerbork; working as a nurse; fear of frequent deportations; deportation to Theresienstadt in 1944; learning she was scheduled for deportation to Auschwitz; during an inspection, asking Heinrich Himmler to let her stay in Theresienstadt; removal from the transport; arrivals of transports from other camps; the new arrivals' debilitated conditions; hearing of cannibalism among them; learning her father and brother had been in Buchenwald some time ago; liberation by the Red Cross; returning to the Netherlands; reunion with her sister (she had been hidden), father, and brother; and their emigration to the United States. Ms. S. shows memorabilia.
    Author/Creator
    S., Hildegard, 1924-
    Published
    Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1995
    Interview Date
    Janurary 6, 1995.
    Locale
    Netherlands
    Gelsenkirchen (Germany)
    Germany
    Driebergen (Netherlands)
    Amsterdam (Netherlands)
    Cite As
    Hildegard S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2858). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Hirschfield, Sarah, interviewer.
    Kaplan, Raymond, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (43 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Crystal Night, 1938.
    Child survivors.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4297091
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:45:00
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