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Helga E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3428) interviewed by Eva Lezzi and Barbara Krahé,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3428

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    Overview

    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Helga E., who was born in Braunschweig, Germany in 1923, the only child of a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. She recalls her father was a published, well-known photographer; enjoying evangelical Christian classes in school; consciousness of her Jewish identity beginning in 1933; antisemitic incidents in school; disappointment at being prohibited from participating in Nazi youth groups; her father's refusal to help her mother's brother; notification of his death after Kristallnacht; expulsion from several schools; difficulty obtaining a job; working at age fifteen in a food factory; becoming ill; a physician, who was a family friend, providing her an exemption from work; Allied bombings; fleeing with her mother to Wahrenholz; her father joining them; posing as Germans who had been “bombed out” (no one suspected they were Jewish); hiding in their vacation home; liberation by United States troops; a brief marriage; her daughter's birth; and living with her parents until 1975. Ms. E. discusses her mother's constant fear during the war; fear of separation from her parents due to her experiences; missing her education; kind treatment after the war by some who had persecuted her under the Nazis; present-day antisemitism; and preferring not to discuss the war years.
    Author/Creator
    E., Helga, 1923-
    Published
    Potsdam, Germany : Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, 1996
    Interview Date
    April 17, 1996.
    Locale
    Germany
    Braunschweig (Germany)
    Wahrenholz (Germany)
    Cite As
    Helga E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3428). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Lezzi, Eva, interviewer.
    Krahé, Barbara, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in German.

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Copies
    2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 55 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Postwar experiences.
    Antisemitism Postwar.
    Postwar effects.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4297498
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:47:00
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