Brigitte Altman

Tuesday, October 11, 2011Brigitte Altman
Brigitte Altman was born in 1924 and as I got to watch her testimony about her life during the Holocaust was very interesting. Surprisingly she was a very pleasant woman and had a smile almost the whole time. First she talked about her life before the war witch was very pleasant. She talked about her father as he was a hero and a very committed Jew. He was very "well to do" as she said on many occasions, a business man that took care of his family. Her mother was a very cheerful, and pretty person. I was able to see a picture of her parents at the end and the did seem very wealthy people, and she stated that her mother looked much better in person. Brigitte was a very well educated woman and she talked about her school very fondly, although that was the first place she started to see things change. The other students in her classes that were not Jews would start to ignore her and her Jewish friends and the teachers started to becomes unfriendly. Once her family found out about what was going on in the war they tried very hard to find some way to go to the US or Canada were they had some relatives that has already came over, but waiting for a visa seem to be very difficult. Some time later her family lost everything and was moved to the ghetto into a small attic and her mother became very sick and had a stroke, and died in the ghetto. So it was just her and her father and He knew he had to get Brigitte out so he made arrangements with a friend of the family to hide her outside the ghetto. I find her so lucky she got out when she did cause she never had to go to a death camp. She did not last very long at that host house, and was moved to a farm where were worked along side of Russian war prisoners, and another Jewish girl that she became friends with. Once the Russians took over and the Germans started to retreat she knew the war was over, it took some time but she was able to back together with her father and then to the US were she meet her husband and have three boys and one girl.

"why it is important to give testimony; to document by words and pictures that not only did the Holocaust unfortunately happen but that the so called or suto Holocaust revisements are so blatantly wrong."


when she got to america she states she "wanted to blended in" that was why she did not talk about what happend to her.