Alice G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1414) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Susan Millen, December 19, 1990.

New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1990.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 45 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Alice G., who was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia, in 1924. Mrs. G. describes her youthful patriotism; her happy childhood; resistance of her teachers and parents to her desire for education; her frustrated and insecure mother; being her father's favorite child and his contribution to her "loving and non-ambivalent" religious outlook; and falling in love while in summer camp in 1938. She recalls her mother's decision, following Munich, to emigrate to the United States; antisemitic acts of the Slovaks; the family's purchase of U.S. visas; their train journey via Berlin to Hamburg during Kristallnacht; and arrival in the United States. Mrs. G.'s account is particularly rich in discussion of her prewar life; adjustment difficulties in America; her years of guilt and depression over the loss of loved ones in Czechoslovakia; attempts to reestablish ties with surviving childhood friends in Israel; and her three trips to Prešov, where it rains during each visit because she hasn't "enough tears to mourn."

June 01, 2002

Alice G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1414). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Alice G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1414). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)

Psychologists.