Claire G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4428
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Claire G., who was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1923, the oldest of four daughters. She recalls a wonderful childhood in an affluent home; her family's orthodoxy; her paternal uncle and his children emigrating to Palestine in 1933; excitement, as a child, at seeing Hitler parade in her town; the sudden loss of non-Jewish friends due to the rise of Nazism; having to transfer to Jewish school; correspondence with a cousin in the United States to improve her English; writing of her desire to emigrate; her uncle obtaining papers for her; traveling with her mother to Stuttgart to obtain her papers; emigration to the United States in June 1938; loneliness, despite her relatives' loving home; her parents' letters informing them they had been relocated to Poland (her uncle had obtained permission for them to emigrate to the U.S.); notification in 1942 that her parents' possessions had arrived in New York; buying some items at an auction for unclaimed merchandise, including her mother's candlesticks; marriage in 1948; and the births of three children. Ms. G. discusses her good luck and the wonderful people in her life; loneliness despite her loving family; continuing close relations with her relatives in Israel who knew her parents; and visiting Düsseldorf with her daughter in the 1990s. She shows photographs, documents, and letters.

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

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