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• Author/Creator:K., Rita, 1925-
  
• Title:Rita K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2505) [videorecording] / interviewed by Sarah Hirschfield and Margot Brandes, October 29, 1993.
  
• Published/Created:Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1993.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (29 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2505)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in 1925 in Lauterbach, Germany. She recounts attending school; being shunned by non-Jewish friends; eviction from their apartment; restrictions resulting from the Nuremberg laws; antisemitic harassment by her teacher; briefly attending a Jewish boarding school in Bad Nauheim; her father traveling to the United States to convince relatives to sponsor them for emigration; an examination at the United States Consulate in Stuttgart; emigration to the United States via Hamburg/Cuxhaven in December 1937; her maternal aunt's emigration in 1938; and her paternal grandfather joining them in 1941. Ms. K. notes the deaths of many relatives in the Holocaust; marriage in 1948 to a man who had attended the Jewish school in Bad Nauheim; the births of two children; and visiting Germany in 1976. She shows photographs.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Rita K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2505). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:K., Rita, 1925-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  Jews--Migrations.
  Jewish refugees.
  Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
  Germany.
  Lauterbach (Vogelsbergkreis, Germany)
  Bad Nauheim (Germany)
  Hamburg (Germany)
  Cuxhaven (Germany)
  Stuttgart (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Nuremberg laws.
  Postwar experiences.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Brandes, Margot, interviewer.
  Hirschfield, Sarah, interviewer.