Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/30/11/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date10 May 1963
DescriptionElse Rosenfeld actuality. Else describes what happens to her husband after he is arrested.

Track 1: Test tone, 0.21 mins
Track 2: Else sings the hymn 'Lobe den Herren' (in English the hymn is called 'Praise to the Lord, the Almighty'), in German, 0.37 mins
Track 3: Else describes taking lodgings with her children after her husband was taken to prison. She was determined not to teach her children "hatred and bitterness" despite what was happening to them, 1.44 mins
Track 4: "At that time we knew there was no justice left in Germany; no court was free of Nazis". Else speaks about finding a lawyer that would agree to defend her husband (June 1934), mins
Track 5: Else speaks about finding a high court judge that would be able to assist in her husband's case. This judge and the lawyer were able to get Else's husband released as long as he would keep the court informed of his movements, 1.48 mins
Track 6: Else speaks about how her family then move to Munich, although they do not want to stay in a big town. They have to keep the Gestapo informed of their movements. Else discovers that she knows one of the Gestapo members, who had been recruited because he was a trained police officer although not a stormtrooper. After Hindenburg's death in August, Else's husband is granted an amnesty, 2.02 mins
Track 7: Else speaks about moving to a village outside Munich where thay can stay at a house whose landlord was not a Nazi, and there was a school for her children to attend. Else describes the friendliness of the villagers, including the Nazis living in the village, 1.44 mins
Track 8: Else speaks about the introduction of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws (1935). Else speaks about the house that she was living in, and her neighbour who was a member of the Nazi party, 2.17 mins
Track 9: Else speaks about how "there was only one sort of training left" for Jewish children: farming. Else recounts sending her children to train to be farmers at a farm near Silesia. Else speaks about wanting to use her social work skills to help the Jewish people, 1.48 mins
Track 10: Silence, 3.23 mins

Total: 17.29 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0516280
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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