Trudi R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Trudi R., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1929. She recounts being raised as a Catholic (her father was Jewish and her mother Catholic); her perceived absence of antisemitism prior to the war, which she attributes to the influence of the Catholic clergy; her father's flight from Germany in June 1939; participating in a Catholic youth group; memories of the group leader, a priest who was later implicated in an assassination attempt against Hitler; Nazi pressure on her mother to obtain a divorce; exclusion from the female Hitler youth group; expulsion from high school when she was fourteen; discovering her family was on a deportation list; liberation by United States troops; and emigration to the United States in December 1946. Ms. R. discusses her psychoanalysis and visits to Munich and Dachau.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- R., Trudi, -- 1929-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Children of interfaith marriage.
- Catholics.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Munich (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat