- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Elizabeth D., a Jehovah's Witness, who was born in Germany in 1929 and grew up in Saxony. She relates her father's activities as a Jehovah's Witness; his repeated arrests beginning shortly after Hitler's rise to power; his final arrest in 1936; and her mother's arrest at that time. She speaks of the 1936 trial of Jehovah's Witnesses, including her parents; her mother's two and a half year sentence; her father's imprisonment; his refusal to renounce his faith; and his eventual death in Sachsenhausen. Mrs. D. recalls living with her grandparents during her parents' imprisonment; her and her brother's fear, loneliness and passive resistance ("quiet defiance") both in and out of school; being forced to 'voluntarily' join the Hitler Youth; and her Hitler Youth activites. She also tells of her recent decision to speak about her wartime experiences.
- Author/Creator
- D., Elizabeth, 1929-
- Published
- Boston, Mass. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
- Interview Date
- July 22, 1980.
- Locale
- Germany
Lower Saxony (Germany)
- Cite As
- Elizabeth D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-95). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimony, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
- Notes
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Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.
