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Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive
Date of Interview:
30/04/89
Interviewed By:
Dvorah Lichtstein

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Herma R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924. She recounts the Anschluss; antisemitic harassment; her brother's and cousin's arrests and release; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest; a neighbor hiding their valuables and providing food; eviction from their home; her father's release; traveling with a kindertransport in March 1939 to London; reunion with her grandmother; living with a foster family; brief evacuation to Wales; corresponding with her parents via the Red Cross; close calls during the blitzkrieg; her brother's emigration to England, then the United States; attending a boarding and a nursing school; and joining her brother in March 1948. Ms. R. discusses deportation and deaths of most of her extended family, including her parents; continuing grief over her departure from her parents and their deaths; and not sharing her experiences with her children.

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