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Author/Creator:S., Sigrid Jean, 1928-
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Title:Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2456) [videorecording] / interviewed by Nat Arkin, August 12, 1992.
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Published/Created:Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1992.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (41 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2456)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Sigrid Jean S., who was born in Dinkelsbühl, Germany in 1928. She recalls expulsion from school in 1937; moving to Frankfurt; her father's internment in Buchenwald; her oldest brother's emigration to Australia; her other brother's deportation (she never saw him again); deportation with her parents to Terezín; making a gift for her parents on Rosh ha-Shanah in 1943; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; digging tank traps in Kurzbach; the death march to Gross Rosen; transfer to Mauthausen, then Bergen-Belsen; and liberation in May 1945 by British troops. She describes recuperating in Helsingborg, Sweden; hearing from her parents; reunion with them in the United States in December 1945; and marriage in 1948.
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Cite as:Sigrid Jean S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2456). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:S., Sigrid Jean, 1928-
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Women.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Parent and child.
Forced labor.
Death marches.
Dinkelsbühl (Germany)
Germany.
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Helsingborg (Sweden)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
Child survivors.
Postwar experiences.
Kurzbach (Poland : Concentration camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Arkin, Nat, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1096684