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Rita K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2505) interviewed by Sarah Hirschfield and Margot Brandes,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2505

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.
Author/Creator: K., Rita, 1925-
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.
Other Authors/Editors: Brandes, Margot, interviewer.
Hirschfield, Sarah, interviewer.

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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