- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ilse L., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1922. Mrs. L. recalls her family's move to Berlin when she was five; losing her Christian governess because of the Nuremberg laws; withdrawing from gymnasium in 1937 when Der Sturmer was placed on her desk; and enrolling in a Jewish school where she excelled in foreign languages. She tells of her parents' friendship with her future in-laws; her future father-in-law's professional relationship with Hjalmar Schacht; her sister's departure for the United States in 1938; her father's deportation to Dachau after Kristallnacht; and her mother's attempts to free her father and emigrate. She describes government confiscation of family assets; her father's release and recuperation; the family's departure for England in early 1939; her education in a French convent in London; and their arrival in America in December 1939. She recounts her courtship and marriage (her husband's family had also emigrated); her husband's army service as an interpreter in a POW camp in the Midwest (U.S.); their careers since the war; being invited in 1985 to visit Berlin; and the lasting psychological effects of her Holocaust experiences.
- Author/Creator
- L., Ilse, 1922-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987
- Interview Date
- June 16 and June 30, 1987.
- Locale
- Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
London (England)
- Cite As
- Isle L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-929). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.