Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/30/22/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date24 May 1963
DescriptionElse Rosenfeld actuality. Else speaks about becoming a refugee in Switzerland.

Track 1: Test tone, 0.30 mins
Track 2: Else sings unidentified hymn in German, 0.39 mins
Track 3: Else speaks about the police harrasing her doctor to release her from hospital. She describes how the police show her the town of Schafhausen (Switzerland) before they take her to the police station, 2.14 mins
Track 4: Else speaks about her cross-examination by the Swiss police. Else relates that the police had shot refugees that had entered the country after her, and the men who had guided her to the border, 2.34 mins
Track 5: Else explains how she was now able to send a telegram to her relative in Lisbon. Else describes the refugee camps in Switzerland, the refugees in her camp and receiving communications from her husband, 2.41 mins
Track 6: Else speaks about the German army deserters whom she met in the refugee camps; they tell her about bringing Jewish people to gas chambers, 2.22 mins
Track 7: Else speaks about her disbelief that she was able to survive these events, and how she feels the responsibility to tell people about her experiences, "to tell people that life never is black on the one side and white on the other, but always life is mixed. Even in the most difficult positions, there always are some little things to help you... come through terrible moments". She speaks about trying to convey what she had experienced, 1.48 mins
Track 8: Else speaks about finding a publisher for the manuscript of her story in Zurich (November 1945), 1.44 mins

Total: 14.36 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0513380
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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