Frieda W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-597) [videorecording] / interviewed by Laurel Vlock, July 8, 1985.

New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1985.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 41 min.) : col.

English

Related publication: A hidden childhood, 1942-1945 / Frida Scheps Weinstein ; translated by Barbara Loeb Kennedy. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Hill and Wang, 1985.

Videotape testimony of Frieda W., who was born in Paris in 1934. She recalls the conflict she experienced as a child between her Jewish and French identities; an early attempt to put her into hiding with other Jewish children; and her constant awareness of her Jewishness, especially in public. She relates her flight with her mother from Paris to a small town; the German bombing and invasion of France; and being sent by her mother to hide in a convent in Switzerland. She describes living as a Catholic in the convent; her declining attachment to the Jewish religion as time went on; her postwar return to Paris, where she learned that her mother had been discovered and deported; and her reunion with her father in Israel. Mrs. W. speaks of postwar responses of survivors in Israel to the Holocaust; the time she spent on a survivors' kibbutz; and her criticism of Jewish denial at the beginning of the Holocaust.

June 01, 2002

Frieda W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-597). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Frieda W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-597). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)