Inge M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Inge M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1933. She recalls moving to Brussels in 1939; German occupation; a humiliating antisemitic incident in school; her father's deportation (she never saw him again); a teacher arranging to hide her and her sister in a convent; Catholic baptism with her sister; transfer to a convent in the country; living briefly with a priest and his housekeeper; reunion with her mother after the war (her mother hid in Brussels); placement in a Jewish children's home in Antwerp due to her mother's financial straits; emigrating to Israel in 1949 with her mother and sister; marriage; and the births of two children. Mrs. M. discusses her childhood belief in Catholicism; her lost childhood and youth; her reluctance to share her experience with her husband and children until recently; and her belief in the need to increase awareness of antisemitism.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- M., Inge, -- 1933-
Subjects
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- Orphanages -- Belgium.
- Identification (Religion)
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Convents.
- Sisters.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Christian converts from Judaism.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar effects.
Places
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Israel.
- Austria.
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat