- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jacqueline K., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1927. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; leaving Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933; joining relatives in Strasbourg, then Enghien-les-Bains; attending public school; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Limoges; she, her mother, and brother smuggling back to their apartment to retrieve their winter clothing; attending an ORT school; living in Lyon; being hidden with her mother in a convent; fleeing to Italian-occupied Nice in 1941; using false papers to pose as non-Jews; her father's exposure and incarceration in Gurs; her mother obtaining his release; German occupation; hiding in villages including Lougratte and Bellac; arrest after the war as a collaborator because her false name was the same as a well-known collaborator; proving who she was; gradually remembering Jewish culture and religion; working in a children's home near Paris; emigration with her family to the United States; marriage in 1950; and the births of her children. Ms. K. discusses transitioning back to her “old identity” and feeling more American than French despite adjustment difficulties. She shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- K., Jacqueline, 1927-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- January 2, 1991.
- Locale
- Germany
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Strasbourg (France)
Enghien-les-Bains (France)
Paris (France)
Limoges (France)
Lyon (France)
Nice (France)
Lougratte (France)
Bellac (France)
- Cite As
- Jacqueline K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1741). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Mann, Devorah, interviewer.
