Marian N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Marian N., who was born in s?-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands in 1938. She has no memory of her German Jewish parents who placed her with a non-Jewish business associate in Geldrop before they hid in 1941. Mrs. N. recalls being moved to the Martins family in Horst, where she posed as a cousin from the city; playing with her "brothers," the Martins' two children; participating in church services and holiday celebrations; attending a convent school; bombings; German soldiers quartered in their home; and receiving candy from Canadian troops who liberated the area. She recounts meeting an uncle who was in the United States military; emigration to the United States in 1946; distress at leaving the Martins; adjustment difficulties in her adoptive family (another uncle); and a pleasurable visit to the Martins in 1959. Mrs. N. discusses her strong affinity for Catholicism; her poor relationship with her adoptive family; the late development of her Jewish consciousness; long believing she had not suffered enough to have an interesting story; and finally telling her story for the sake of her children. She shows documents detailing her parents deportation from Westerbork to Sobibor.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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
- N., Marian, -- 1938-
Subjects
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Identification (Religion)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Foster parents.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Geldrop (Netherlands)
- Horst (Netherlands)
- Netherlands.
- sĚ-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat