Kate F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1896
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Kate F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1914, the only child of a government official. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; graduation from school in 1933; a teacher avoiding racial questions on Mrs. F.'s final oral exam; deteriorationg conditions; teaching German for a year in Paris; studying comparative literature at the Sorbonne; visiting her parents in Berlin; seeing broken glass the morning after Kristallnacht; her parents' emigration to Paris to join her; and transport to Gurs as an "enemy alien." Mrs. F. recounts her release after the Germans occupied Paris; moving to Montauban; visiting her parents once, then losing contact with them; emigration by way of Spain and Lisbon to the United States in 1941; marriage to another refugee; bringing her mother to the United States in 1945 (she had hidden in France); and her son's birth in 1946. She shows family photos and documents including certification of her father's death at Auschwitz.

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

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