Ivy B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2351) [videorecording] / interviewed by Maureen Moffitt Wilt and Mary Grace Lanese, March 16, 1994.

Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 52 min.) : col.

English

Related publication: Love despite hate : child survivors of the Holocaust and their adult lives / Sarah Moskovitz. -- New York : Schocken Books, c1983.

Videotape testimony of Ivy B., who was born in Australia in 1919. She speaks of studying child development psychology in London in 1946; working from 1947 onward at the Anna Freud Centre with children liberated from concentration camps; Anna Freud's staff; and the organization of the Centre. Mrs. B. relates stories of the children undergoing individual psychological treatment; the effects of concentration camps on children; their hoarding of food and food fights; language difficulties; sleep disturbances and night horrors; individual fears related to their experiences; the effect of separation from their families; visits from potential American foster parents; unsuccessful adoption attempts; and exceptionally close bonds among the children. She tells of her respect for the committee ladies from the West London Synagogue; Rabbi Hugo Green of London; American Jewish foster parents; and her gratitude to and respect for Anna Freud and the staff who worked with the children.

June 01, 2002

Ivy B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2351). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Ivy B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2351). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)

Psycholanalysts.