Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in 1925 in Lauterbach, Germany. She recounts attending school; being shunned by non-Jewish friends; eviction from their apartment; restrictions resulting from the Nuremberg laws; antisemitic harassment by her teacher; briefly attending a Jewish boarding school in Bad Nauheim; her father traveling to the United States to convince relatives to sponsor them for emigration; an examination at the United States Consulate in Stuttgart; emigration to the United States via Hamburg/Cuxhaven in December 1937; her maternal aunt's emigration in 1938; and her paternal grandfather joining them in 1941. Ms. K. notes the deaths of many relatives in the Holocaust; marriage in 1948 to a man who had attended the Jewish school in Bad Nauheim; the births of two children; and visiting Germany in 1976. She shows photographs.
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1993
- Interview Date
- October 29, 1993.
- Locale
- Germany
Lauterbach (Vogelsbergkreis, Germany)
Bad Nauheim (Germany)
Hamburg (Germany)
Cuxhaven (Germany)
Stuttgart (Germany) - Cite As
- Rita K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2505). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (29 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Nuremberg laws.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. Germany. Lauterbach (Vogelsbergkreis, Germany) Bad Nauheim (Germany) Hamburg (Germany) Cuxhaven (Germany) Stuttgart (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) K., Rita,--1925-
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/4318155
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4318155
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