- Summary
- 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.
- Author/Creator
- S., Trude, 1927-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1995
- Interview Date
- January 20, 1995.
- Locale
- Austria
Gmunden (Austria)
Vienna (Austria)
Göteborg (Sweden)
- Cite As
- Trude S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2866). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hirschfield, Sarah, interviewer.
Kaplan, Raymond, interviewer.
