Mary G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-586) [videorecording] / interviewed by Pam Goodman and Eileen Anderson, May 6, 1985.

New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1985.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 49 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Mary B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1908. She tells of her orthodox family; moving to Graz in 1935 to prepare for emigration to Palestine; returning to Vienna in 1937; German annexation of Austria; one brother's escape to Switzerland and another's to Belgium; his placing an advertisement in a British paper to find a position for her; receiving an offer of employment and a visa from a British family; the difficult parting from her parents; seeing her brother in Belgium en route; and arrival in London. She describes living in Torquay; her employer's dissatisfaction with her; support given by the local Quaker church; making friends through a local refugee club; leaving for London after eighteen months; being caught in the blitzkrieg in Manchester; remaining and working as a waitress and in a factory; reunion with her third brother who was a United States army officer; postwar work in Bloomsbury House, a refugee support organization; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. G. recalls learning of her parents' deportation to Minsk (they did not survive); adjustment problems in America; marriage in 1948; and her daughter's birth in 1950.

June 01, 2002

Mary G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-586). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Mary G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-586). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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