Ruth S. Holocaust testimony
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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Ruth, -- 1933-
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
- World Union OSE.
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Orphanages.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar effects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Survivor-child relations.
Places
- Mannheim (Germany)
- Ladenburg (Germany)
- Marseille (France)
- Faverges-de-la-Tour (France)
- Sinsheim (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat