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Alice S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3974) interviewed by Raymond Kaplan and Evelyn Lowy,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3974

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Alice S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1913, the youngest of three children. She recalls many injured veterans from World War I; active participation in a Zionist youth group, despite her parents' disapproval; completing studies at a private gymnasium, then medical school; her older brother and sister emigrating to join relatives in the United States; pervasive antisemitism; the Anschluss; the transformation of most Austrians into Nazis; the non-Jewish superintendent of their building protecting them during a round-up; emigration to the United States; training as a psychiatrist; her parents' emigration a year later; marriage to a Jewish Viennese refugee; the births of her children; her husband's death in 1975; and centering her life on her grandchildren.
Author/Creator: S., Alice, 1913-
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1998
Interview Date: September 25, 1998.
Locale: Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Cite As: Alice S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3974). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Kaplan, Raymond, interviewer.
Lowy, Evelyn, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 1 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Zionists. Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Vienna (Austria) Austria. Oral histories (document genres) S., Alice,--1913-

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/4564318
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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