Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Edith R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1930, the older of two children of Polish émigrés. She recounts attending Jewish summer camp; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with her family to France; living on a non-Jewish family's farm; attending school; traveling to Toulouse; incarceration in Claremont-Ferrand; escaping approximately six weeks later after her father bribed a French guard; walking to Paris; returning to Brussels; expulsion from school; being sent with her brother to a summer camp in Uccle; returning; hiding with her parents; their arranging for her to hide with a blind woman; missing her parents and returning to them; being hidden in a Catholic orphanage; baptism; taking communion; her father's visit; frequent name changes; returning home after D-Day; being hidden in another convent; liberation; emigration to the United States in 1948; returning briefly to Belgium two years later; marriage in the United States in 1955; and the birth of two children. Ms. R. discusses seeking treatment for emotional problems resulting from her experiences and her identity as a Jew.
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1997
- Interview Date
- July 15, 1997.
- Locale
- Belgium
Brussels (Belgium)
Paris (France)
Toulouse (France)
Uccle (Belgium) - Cite As
- Edith R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3972). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 33 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - 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. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Orphanages--Belgium. Convents. Christian converts from Judaism. Identification (Religion) Belgium. Brussels (Belgium) Paris (France) Toulouse (France) Uccle (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) R., Edith,--1930-
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/4564311
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:34:00
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