Claudine K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Claudine K., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1944. She relates her parents' experience hiding with assistance from a non-Jew; her father's and grandparents' arrest; their deportation to Auschwitz; a German officer helping her pregnant mother; her father's postwar return from Auschwitz; and her mother's constant sadness. Mrs. K. describes the psychological impact of her father's stories and the effect of her parents' experiences on the family's complex relations. She attributes her decision to move to America to her need to find her own coping mechanism.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (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
- K., Claudine, -- 1944-
Subjects
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Identification (Religion)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
- Family.
- Children of Holocaust survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Child survivors.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Mothers and daughters.
Places
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Belgium.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat