- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ellen S., a non-Jew who was born in Bohemia. Mrs. S. describes her life in Plzeň; her limited yet positive contact with Jews; the German occupation and increasing restrictions on her freedom; her apprenticeship to a dressmaker; and her peripheral knowledge of the Jewish situation. She relates the shock of seeing a deportation train full of abused prisoners, and her thwarted attempts to feed them; her subsequent attempts to aid people when possible; and the inability of the church to address the immediate situation. She also speaks of meeting the American G.I. who was to become her husband; emigration to the United States; her general disillusionment; and her regret that she was unable to help more than she did.
- Author/Creator
- S., Ellen, 1923-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
- Interview Date
- June 16, 1980.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Plzeň (Czech Republic)
- Cite As
- Ellen S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-204). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
Laub, Dori, interviewer.
