Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/30/14/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date13 May 1963
DescriptionElse Rosenfeld actuality. Else speaks about the restrictions placed on Jewish people after the outbreak of war, and what her life was like after her husband left Germany.

Track 1: Test tone, 0.25 mins
Track 2: Else sings in German, "Zum zum zum... ", 0.24 mins
Track 3: Else speaks about taking her husband to the station to leave Germany, 2.04 mins
Track 4: Else speaks about worrying about how her husband would manage alone in London, while a friend offers to give Else any additional help that she will need, 2.15 mins
Track 5: Else speaks about the outbreak of war, four days after her husband left. She compares the subdued reaction of the German people to the outbreak of this war to the reaction at the outbreak of the First World War. Else also recounts some of the war-time restrictions placed on Jewish people - including not being able to keep pets or have electrical items, 1.38 mins
Track 6: Else explains that the restrictions placed on Jewish people were not public knowledge, and that the items confiscated from Jewish people could be kept by Nazi officials, 1.37 mins
Track 7: Else speaks about how any entertainment for Jewish people, from concerts to lectures, was forbidden in Munich. Else says that such restrictions were kept secret because of the backlash in German public opinion after the persecutions of 1938. Else says that she and her friends begin to realise that the Nazis would kill us" 2.40 mins
Track 8: Else speaks about beginning to work full time, she had worked part time before her family left. Else says that although some of the Munich Jewish men had been released from Daschau they were jobless. Else speaks about Jewish and Christian people who were prepared to help the now destitute Munich Jewish populace. Else speaks about how it became a crime for Jewish people to live outside of cities, and so Else is summoned before a court and is told to move to Munich and to work in a specified factory. After working in that factory a while her left arm becomes inflamed and she is unable to use it, 3.07 mins

Total: 14.13 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0403080
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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