Libby F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Libby F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1934 to Polish parents. She recounts being born a triplet (the other two did not return from the hospital with her and their fates are unknown); her family's orthodoxy and poverty; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining papers for emigration from an uncle in the United States; Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Dachau; her mother forging papers to secure his release; her father's emigration; moving into an uncle's house with her mother and brother; and their emigration to the United States. Ms. F. notes her parents devastation upon hearing about the Warsaw ghetto uprising (their parents were there); very few relatives who survived from her large extended family; and sharing her experiences with her children.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Libby, -- 1934-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- False papers.
- Child survivors.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Germany.
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat