Ann J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2835) [videorecording] / interviewed by Ramona R. W. Kirsch and Mary Grace Lanese, November 2, 1994.

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

1 videorecording (1 hr., 14 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Jacobson, Ann. Interview 20685. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Ann J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926 to an affluent family. She recounts having two half siblings from her father's first marriage and a younger brother; moving to Stuttgart in 1932; her father losing his job due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Vienna, her father's native city; rejection from public school due to anti-Jewish laws; the Anschluss in March 1938; several expulsions from their apartments; her older brother's arrest on Kristallnacht; assistance from a former non-Jewish employee; her older brother's release after two weeks; learning he had been whipped; his emigration to England and her older sister's to Prague; preparing for a kindertransport to England with her younger brother; obtaining papers for the United States prior to their scheduled departure; their emigration with their parents to the United States in April 1939; assistance from relatives in the U.S.; her parents' difficulties adjusting; and becoming a citizen when she married at age nineteen. Ms. J. discusses constant fear prior to emigration; only learning of the death camps after liberation; protecting her children from her experiences; and visits to Germany and Austria.

June 01, 2002

Ann J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2835). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Ann J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2835). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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