Ruth S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1695
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Ruth S., who was born in Sinsheim, Germany in 1933. She recalls Kristallnacht; her father's imprisonment in Dachau; her imprisonment, with her family, in Ladenburg in October 1940; her grandfather's emigration to the United States; deportation via Mannheim to Gurs with her parents and sister; being smuggled out with her sister by OSE (they never saw their parents again); living in an OSE orphanage, then with a non-Jewish family in Faverges-de-la-Tour as Christians using false names; their return to the OSE orphanage when neighbors grew suspicious; living as Jews again; attending public school; communication from their grandfather; emigrating from Marseille to the United States on September 6, 1946; and support from HIAS after relatives rejected them. Mrs. S. discusses many years of denying her experience and her parents' deaths; not revealing her experiences to her children; attending a survivors' gathering in Israel where she learned details about her parents' deportation to Auschwitz; becoming active in Holocaust education; and returning to Germany and France with her family.

Extent and Medium

2 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Ruth S. and Lea W. Holocaust testimony [with sister] (HVT-1799), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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