Ruth D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ruth D., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1933. She recalls a large, extended family; celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to De Panne, Dunkerque, and Boulogne with her parents; their return to Brussels; anti-Jewish regulations; her parents' decision not to register as Jews; hiding with non-Jewish neighbors during round-ups in 1942 and 1943; being sent to camp in Seny for two weeks; living with her cousin in Waterloo; her mother arranging for her to live with two women who hid Jewish children; attending a Catholic boarding school from January until September 1944; weekend visits to her parents' home; and liberation in June 1944. Mrs. D. describes learning of the concentration camps; emigration to the United States in 1953; her parents returning to Belgium; marriage; visiting Israel in 1976; and frequent trips to Belgium. She names many relatives who perished and shows family photographs.
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- D., Ruth, -- 1933-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Mothers and daughters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
Places
- Seny (Belgium)
- Dunkerque (France)
- De Panne (Belgium)
- Waterloo (Belgium)
- Boulogne-sur-Mer (France)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Belgium.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat