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Edith F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3737) interviewed by Stefanie Brauer and Maximilian Preisler,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3737

Videotape testimony of Edith F., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recounts her wealthy, assimilated home; attending Czech and German schools; private religious instruction at home; meeting her future husband at age fifteen; moving to London in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Germany; frequently returning to Prague, sometimes without her parents; leaving immediately after occupation with her future husband (his family remained, were deported, and killed); letters from relatives in Theresienstadt; leaving London for Exeter after the war began; emigrating to Brazil; marriage; learning her father-in-law had perished; moving to São Paulo; raising their children as non-Jews, although they knew they were Jewish; her husband's successful academic and writing career; her father's brief return to Prague immediately after the war; his reclaiming some property; remaining in Brazil due to the communist government in Czechoslovakia; leaving for Europe in 1972; and living in several places, eventually settling in Munich. Ms. F. discusses the deaths of many relatives; her children's lives; her husband's biography; and his burial in a Prague Jewish cemetery.

Author/Creator
F., Edith, 1920-2014.
Published
Potsdam, Germany : Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, 1997
Interview Date
November 29, 1997.
Locale
Czechoslovakia
Prague (Czech Republic)
London (England)
Exeter (England)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
São Paulo (Brazil)
Munich (Germany)
Language
German
Copies
2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Edith F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3737). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298857
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