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Anne D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3525) interviewed by Erin Soriano,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3525

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Anne D., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935. She recounts attending boarding school when her mother became ill in 1938; her parents' baptisms; not knowing she was Jewish; illegal emigration to Lucerne, Switzerland in 1939, then to Casablanca (they had relatives there); regularly attending church; exposure to antisemitism (she did not learn she was Jewish until she was ten); marriage to an American soldier in 1954; emigration to Seattle; the births of two children; divorce; remarriage; living in France, where her third child was born, then Seattle; and emigration to Canada (her parents lived there). Ms. D. discusses meeting her Hungarian grandmother in 1956; telling her husband and children she was Jewish; and belonging to a child survivor group.
Author/Creator: D., Anne, 1935-
Published: Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1996
Interview Date: April 9, 1996.
Locale: Hungary
Budapest (Hungary)
Lucerne (Switzerland)
Casablanca (Morocco)
Seattle (Wash.)
France
Cite As: Anne D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3525). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Soriano, Erin, interviewer.

Physical Details

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

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar experiences.
Child survivors.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Christian converts from Judaism. Identification (Religion) Jewish refugees. Jews--Migrations. Families. Hungary. Budapest (Hungary) Lucerne (Switzerland) Casablanca (Morocco) Seattle (Wash.) France. Oral histories (document genres) D., Anne,--1935-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4297727
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4297727

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