Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project

Interviewee

Susan Thorne Bryant

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Interviewer

Tori Chambers Lockler

Publication Date

1-18-2011

Date

2010-06-18

Abstract

Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Susan Thorne Bryant. Bryant was born in Vienna in 1929 and lived there with her parents. From the age of six, she was a child actor at the Burgtheater. She was eight when Austria was annexed to Germany and witnessed several incidents of anti-Semitism. Bryant and her mother escaped to England in 1938 while her father was imprisoned in Dachau for three months before being released and joining them in England. Bryant lived with an English foster family for a year and a half, during which time her parents worked as domestics. In 1940 they got visas for the United States and immigrated to New York, where Bryant returned to acting on television and radio, helping to support her family. In this interview, Bryant also discusses the fates of several other relatives, some of whom survived the Holocaust; others, including her grandmother, were killed in the concentration camps.

Keywords

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), World War, 1939-1945, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Jewish children in the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, Holocaust survivors, Child actors, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, Austria, England, Austria, England, Florida

Extent

01:17:30; 28 page transcript

Subject: geographic

Vienna (Austria); Auschwitz (Poland) (Poland); Theresienstadt (Budapest (Hungary), Hungary); England

Language

English

Digital Date

2022

Media Type

Oral histories

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

F60-00028

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