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Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive
Date of Interview:
31/03/91
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Sonia Simons

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Alice S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her family's affluence; attending school until 1936; her sister's emigration to England; nursing training in a children's home, then the Jewish hospital; an uncle who worked there arranging for the removal of her name from deportation lists (her brother was deported and killed); meeting her future husband, who was hiding in Berlin (his mother was a non-Jew); liberation by Soviet troops; continuing to work with children at the hospital; learning her future husband's father had died in Theresienstadt; visiting his mother in Witten; her death; returning to the British zone, hoping to join her sister in London; obtaining papers for London; a three month visit in 1947 (she was not allowed to stay); living in France for three years; and emigration to the United States. She notes pride in her son and his family.

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