- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ruth L., who was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1910. She describes her family background, including her Jewish maternal grandfather, which made her "37.5% Jewish" to the Nazis; her Protestant upbringing; her father's dismissal from the University of Heidelberg and jailing in 1933 for anti-Nazi sympathies; his refusal to flee Germany after his release; and her departure for Stockholm to continue medical studies after her uncle and a pro-Nazi friend advised her to leave. She recounts living in Sweden; completing medical school in Basel, Switzerland; accepting a position in Istanbul; the adjustment difficulties to life in Turkey; returning to Switzerland to study treatment of schizophrenia; and emigrating to the United States in 1937 for a position at Johns Hopkins. She discusses her early work; marrying a Jewish psychoanalyst; sponsoring the immigration of her brother and a sister; another sister's postwar marriage to an ex-Wehrmacht engineer; her father's death and her mother's move to America and later return to Germany.
- Author/Creator
- L., Ruth, 1910-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987
- Interview Date
- March 31, 1987.
- Locale
- Germany
Heidelberg (Germany)
Basel (Switzerland)
Stockholm (Sweden)
Istanbul (Turkey)
- Cite As
- Ruth L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-837). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,