Inge W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1465) [videorecording] / interviewed by Roslyn M. Hyman and Barry Cohen, March 11, 1990.

Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 26 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Inge W., one of seven children, who was born in Gautzsch, Germany in 1920. She recalls her father's local importance as a physician; the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, including her father's practice; the Nuremberg laws resulting in increasing hardships; participation in Jewish youth, sports and cultural activities; attending the 1936 Olympics; expulsion from school in 1937; attending a teacher training course in Stuttgart for one year; teaching at the Leipzig Jewish school until October 1938; Kristallnacht, which caused her family to attempt emigration; her boyfriend's emigration to the United States; and emigration with her family in 1939 to Bolivia. Mrs. W. recounts marrying her boyfriend during the ship's stop in Baltimore; working in La Paz; joining her husband in the United States in February 1940; his military service beginning in 1943; joining her husband in Germany as a translator for the United States military after the war; living in Vienna for five years; and working for HIAS after their return to the United States and to the present time. She shows German documents.

June 01, 2002

Inge W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1465). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Inge W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1465). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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