Ruth D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ruth D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. She recounts her mother was British; having three older siblings; attending private school until her mother's death in 1934; participating in the Zionist youth groups Mizrachi and Maccabi; German invasion; fleeing to France with her family, an aunt, uncle, and their two children; a non-Jewish farmer sheltering them for three weeks; staying in Lille six weeks; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, and Bayonne; obtaining visas to Venezuela; emigration to Havana via Spain; and arrival in the United States in September 1941. Ms. D. discusses the importance of her Jewish heritage and conveying it to her children and grandchildren; emigration to Israel in 1945; prewar life in Antwerp; and communicating her experiences through her artwork. She shows photographs and her artwork.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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
- D., Ruth, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Mizrachi.
- Maccabi World Union.
Subjects
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
Places
- Paris (France)
- Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)
- Bayonne (France)
- Havana (Cuba)
- Belgium.
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Lille (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat