| Description | Else Rosenfeld actuality. Else speaks about formally joining the Jewish community and the escalation of anti-Jewish events in 1938.
Track 1: Test tone, 0.21 mins
Track 2: Else sings in German, 0.39 mins
Track 3: Else speaks about how she voluntarily became an official member of the Jewish community, obtaining a certificate from a Rabbi, 1.19 mins
Track 4: Else speaks about how her oldest daughter had left in 1937 for Argentina to get married. Else recounts how the rest of the family had planned to join her in 1938 but was unable to after Kristallnacht and the stepping up of anti-Jewish action in Germany. Else's family were asked to leave the town they had been living in, 1.51 mins
Track 5: Else recounts that the Mayor of the town they lived in assured them that they should be able to return to the town soon and that he would look after their belongings, 0.43 mins
Track 6: Else speaks about moving to Munich, but Jewish people were banned from finding accomodation there. She describes "walking through the streets still finding shops smashed by stormtroopers. Finding that large vans drew up and took Jews from the streets to put them in the nearest concentration camp in Dachau. It was one of the most terrifying days I can remember. I still dream of this day.", 1.21 mins
Track 7: Else talks about how her family were not recognised as Jews from their features. Else speaks about trying to find a place to hide her family in Munich. Else speaks about visiting an elderly friend of hers whose husband had been beaten and abducted by stormtroopers, this lady takes Else and her daughter in but not Else's husband and son, 2.21 mins
Track 8: Else speaks about visiting a non-Jewish dressmaker friend who agrees to hide Else's husband and son for a night, and the fear of Else's Jewish friends, 1.24 mins
Track 9: Else describes how her dressmaker friend had been threatened for sheltering Jewish people. Else describes hiding with a Jewish friend whose husband had been taken. Else speaks about offering her help as a counsellor to the local Jewish community, to try to "make them see they can overcome fear... and to stop to hate", 1.55 mins
Track 10: Else speaks of the chaos in the Jewish community, who had all had their livelihoods taken away from them. Else speaks of her efforts and those of others in the Jewish community to help each other, although men were unable to leave their houses, 2.02 mins
Track 11: Else speaks about returning to their house outside Munich, but being aware "that we had to leave the country", 0.34 mins
Total: 14.32 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF 549C0513080 |