Ruth J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1104) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joanne Weiner Rudof and Helen Katz, February 20, 1991.

New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 4 min.) : col.

English

Related publication: Rescued Images : Memories of a Childhood in Hiding / Ruth Jacobsen. -- New York : Mikaya Press, c2001.

Videotape testimony of Ruth J., who was born in Frankenberg, Germany, in 1932. Ms. J. recalls a family move to Düsseldorf; Kristallnacht; her parents' decision to flee to Holland; living on the estate of an anti-Nazi baron in Utrecht; being joined by her grandmother; German invasion; imposition of anti-Semitic measures; the disappearances of school classmates; deportation of her grandmother to Terezín; and in 1942 being hidden by a non-Jewish friend who told others the family had committed suicide. She describes being helped by the Dutch resistance; separation from her parents; placement with several families (sometimes in the guise of a "long lost cousin"); her "child-like" awareness of the reasons for hiding; reunion with her parents in hiding; Allied liberation in 1944; postwar confusion about her religious identity; her mother's emotional breakdown and suicide; her father's remarriage and suicide; emigration to America in 1953; and becoming the first woman in the film projectionists' union. Ms. J. illustrates her account with collages she created from family photographs and documents.

June 01, 2002

Ruth J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1104). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Ruth J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1104). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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