Testimony of Hella Tulman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1913, regarding her experiences as a German Christian in Gurs and Stettin camps
Testimony of Hella Tulman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1913, regarding her experiences as a German Christian in Gurs and Stettin camps
Testimony
Testimony of Hella Tulman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1913, regarding her experiences as a German Christian in Gurs and Stettin camps
Evangelist intellectual family; her father owns a book publishing business and an opera director in Dresden; her father enlists to the German Army front, 1914; work as a dance and exercise teacher; life and activities in the Netherlands; move to France; request to return to Germany before the outbreak of the war.
Her father is a member of the SA; her sister is a Hitler-Jugend; witness decides not to return to Germany; German occupation of France; detention of the witness with anti-Hitler political prisoners; imprisonment in Gurs; labor in a hospital for women; treatment of Jewish female; meets her future husband, a Jewish communist and former cantor in Budapest; return to Germany, 1944; agricultural labor with political POWs in Stettin; Soviet occupation.
Escape to the British occupied zone in Germany; work as a translator; meets her future husband again; marriage; conversion.
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item Id
3859568
First Name
Hela
Hella
Last Name
Tolman
Tulman
Date of Birth
07/02/1913
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Type of material
Testimony
Language
German
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives