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Ruth L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-837) interviewed by Frances Proctor Cohen and Lucille B. Ritvo,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-837

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    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.,

    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., 57 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/972004
    Record last modified:
    2018-03-06 14:10:00
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