Ruth M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ruth M., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1931. She recounts her close, extended family; their orthodoxy; being hidden on Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Buchenwald the next day; expulsion from school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; joining a children's transport to Amsterdam in 1939 (her sister went earlier); reunion with her sister; separation when placed with different families; joining eighty children on a transport to England in May 1940; living in an orphanage in Wigan, then with a non-Jewish family; and moving to Manchester to live with a Jewish family. Mrs. M. discusses learning of her mother's death in Stuffhof from surviving aunts who were with her; her father's escape to England; his emigration to the United States after the war; and continuing contact with her English foster mother. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- M., Ruth, -- 1931-
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Orphanages -- England.
- Foster parents.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Sisters.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
Places
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Wigan (England)
- Germany.
- Kassel (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat