Selma N. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Selma N., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1926, an only child. She recalls her family's emphasis on education and music; anti-Jewish restrictions after the Anschluss; her father's belief he would be safe due to his service in the First World War; having to attend a Jewish school; being warned of Kristallnacht by their non-Jewish building superintendent; her parent's decision to send her on a kindertransport; leaving for Sweden assuming she would see her parents soon; living with a family in Linko?ping, then in an orphanage in Go?teborg; warm relations with the other children; receiving mail from her parents from Theresienstadt; attending nursing school; meeting concentration camp survivors when they arrived in Sweden; learning her parents and most other relatives did not survive; emigrating to the United States to marry an American soldier; and the births of two daughters. Mrs. N. discusses a postwar trip to Vienna (she had not wanted to go) and her resolve not to return; not wanting to burden her daughters with her experiences; recently sharing her story with them and their anger that she had not done so earlier; continuing contacts with a few women from the orphanage; and regrets over not maintaining contact with others.

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