Trude S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2866) interviewed by Sarah Hirschfield and Raymond Kaplan

Videotape testimony of Trude S., who was born in Gmunden, Austria in 1929. She recalls being ordered to leave Gmunden a day after the Anschluss; her father's incarceration in Buchenwald; living with relatives in Vienna; her father's release based on his promise to emigrate; his departure for Italy (she never saw him again); briefly living in an orphanage; her sister's emigration to Palestine; deportation with her mother to Theresienstadt in 1941; her mother's death in 1943; a man from the orphanage delaying her deportation to Auschwitz by almost a year; deportation to Auschwitz in late 1944, then to Kurzbach; slave labor; a death march and train transport to Bergen-Belsen; brief transfer to a small camp; return to Belsen; liberation by British troops; recuperating in Sweden; attending dental technician school in Göteborg; joining her sister in Austria in 1951; her sister's emigration to join her husband's family in the United States; joining them six months later; and marriage to an Austrian who had been on a Kindertransport. Ms. S. notes she survived through luck and ignorance, and not wanting to dwell on her past.