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Testimony of Hella Tulman, born in Berlin, Germany, 1913, regarding her experiences as a German Christian in Gurs and Stettin camps

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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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3859568
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Hela
Hella
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Tolman
Tulman
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07/02/1913
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Berlin, Germany
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Testimony
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German
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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03/08/2000
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03/08/2000
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TULMAN HELLA
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection