LEADER 04484cpd a2200589za 4500001 982249 005 20180306141113.0 008 910410s1985 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702253681 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV91-A104 035 982249 035 HVT-625 035 |9AFY4111YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 ocn702207199 090 |bHVT-625 100 1 R., Elsa, |d1908- 245 10 Elsa R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-625) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Emanuel Landau and Lilian Sicular, |fNovember 3, 1985. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bVideo Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, |c1985. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 47 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Elsa R., who was born in Lübeck, Germany, in 1908. Ms. R. tells of leaving her family in 1929 to work in Munich; antisemitism; disillusionment with her Christian fiance, who alone knew she was Jewish; and obtaining a post in Turin, Italy in 1935 with the help of an anti-Nazi company official. She relates visiting her sister in Rome; friendship with her firm's Turin representative; the 1938 laws expelling all foreign Jews; unsuccessful attempts to obtain an American visa; her friends' bribery of police, so her file might be "lost"; arrest; transport in 1940 to a women's camp for political internees and prostitutes at Casacalenda; camp conditions; receiving permission for an unsupervised visit to Turin; Italian capitulation; German occupation; and liberation by Canadian soldiers. She recounts briefly staying at an ex-POW camp in Bari; working for the Allied Military Government (AMG); transfer to another AMG detachment at Udine; departure on a liberty ship from Genoa; and arrival in Charleston, South Carolina. She reflects on how the war changed her life; pride in her achievements; and closeness with her sister. 544 |dAssociated material: Anneliese R. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-624),Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e3 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Elsa R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-625). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 R., Elsa, |d1908- 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 Sisters. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123008 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148460 650 0 Jews |xMigrations. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070426 650 0 Jewish refugees. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112308 650 0 Jews |xLegal status, laws, etc. |zItaly. 651 0 Germany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125931 651 0 Lübeck (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81108828 651 0 Munich (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670 651 0 Turin (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054009 651 0 Rome (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018704 651 0 Bari (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054584 651 0 Udine (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100753 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 691 4 Casacalenda (Italy : Concentration camp) 700 1 Landau, Emanuel, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001044507 700 1 Sicular, Lilian, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 1603A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520. 902 |b1110339 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.0625) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/xs5j960m5j 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/