Berta C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Berta C., who was born in approximately 1924 and raised in MsĚeno, Czechoslovakia by her ethnic German mother and grandfather. She recalls her grandfather's death when she was seven; her mother's death in approximately 1938; renting most of her house to a German family; working for institutions which cared for German women, children, and wounded soldiers; imprisonment of her aunt's son while in the German military because he criticized Hitler; after the war, as a German who remained in Czechoslovakia, being required to watch films of concentration camps, of which she says she had no knowledge prior to that time; working in a store in Jablonec to improve her Czech; moving to Prague; and working for a German theater. Ms. C. notes she feels more comfortable among ethnic Germans and during the war was an innocent girl thinking only about her own survival. She shows photographs.
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
- C., Berta, -- 1924?-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Czech.
- Women.
- Postwar experiences.
- Bystanders.
Places
- Jablonec nad Nisou (Czech Republic)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- MsĚeno (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat