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Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive
Date of Interview:
01/03/90
Interviewed By:
Toby Blum-Dobkin
Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Thea S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, an only child. She recalls visiting relatives in Poland; living with her mother in Germany for a year in the late 1920s; attending gymnasium; participating in Maccabi and other Zionist organizations; the Anschluss in March 1938; dismissal of her Jewish teachers; prohibition from employing their non-Jewish maid; Nazi harassment; being forced to move many times; her boyfriend's arrest on Kristallnacht; non-Jewish neighbors hiding her father; obtaining British travel documents with assistance from an uncle in London; traveling with her parents to London via Belgium on December 24, 1938; working at a Zionist children's camp in Ashford Kent; its relocation to South Wales after the war broke out; and emigration with her parents to the United States via Halifax in February 1940. Ms. S. discusses their adjustment to the United States, marriage to a Viennese refugee; and the loss of many relatives in the Holocaust. She shows photographs and memorabilia.
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