Claire K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1426) [videorecording] / interviewed by Roslyn M. Hyman and Barbara McPherson, December 16, 1990.

Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 29 min.) ; ol.

English

Videotape testimony of Claire K., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1925 to Polish parents. She recalls increased antisemitism in 1933; their flight to Holland; moving to Poland in 1935, then Brussels, Belgium; unsuccessful emigration attempts; an influx of refugees after Kristallnacht; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups and deportations; and her mother arranging for Mrs. K. to spend nights hiding with non-Jews. Mrs. K. remembers the deportation of her parents and one brother; receiving a postcard her mother sent from Malines (her last contact with them); her younger brother's placement in an orphanage, then with Jesuits; obtaining good false papers from the underground; working as a beautician; helping her aunt hide; constant fear of discovery; liberation by British troops in 1944; and emigration with her brother to the United States in 1948. Mrs. K. shows a family photo which documents many of her family members who were killed and details her life after arrival in the United States.

June 01, 2002

Claire K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1426). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Claire K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1426). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)