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Johanna C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-171) interviewed by Dori Laub and Nanette Auerhahn,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-171

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Johanna C., who was born in Munich in 1919 of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. She tells of her well-to-do, nonreligious upbringing in Schwabing; her relationship with her parents and their attitudes toward Judaism; and her own feelings about not having a Jewish education. She describes prejudice within her school and the rise of Nazism as coinciding with her growing awareness of being Jewish; her attitude towards Hitler; and the conflict with her parents over her desire to emigrate. She was arrested twice and describes her feelings about those incidents as well as her formal conversion to Judaism following her second arrest. She also tells of the process of her emigration in 1938 and settlement in the United States, including her marriage and divorce, and her graduate and postgraduate education.
Author/Creator: C., Johanna, 1919-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
Interview Date: April 26, 1980.
Locale: Germany
Munich (Germany)
Schwabing (Munich, Germany)
Cite As: Johanna C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-171). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Laub, Dori, interviewer.
Auerhahn, Nanette, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 47 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish converts from Christianity. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German. Jews--Migrations. Identification (Religion) Germany. Munich (Germany) Schwabing (Munich, Germany) Children of interfaith marriage. Jewish converts. Conversion--Judaism--Converts from Christianity. Proselytizing--Judaism. Conversion--Judaism. Oral histories (document genres) C., Johanna,--1919-

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/616867
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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