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Rachel Deblinger, Author

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Irene Guttman: Video Testimony

Many years after serving as a representative for all child survivors and "war orphans," Irene decided to speak about her experiences on her own terms. She has been an active speaker in the New York area for many years and has recorded multiple testimony accounts. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum recorded Irene in an audio testimony in 1992. The same year the museum also recorded Irene speaking with her brother, Rene.

In 1995, Irene and Rene were again recorded by the USHMM, this time on film and the video testimony is available for view here.

In these interviews, Irene discusses her trip to America in 1947 and recalls being shy and unhappy at her fate, since she had wanted to stay with a friend at the French orphanage and hoped to go to Israel. Although she recalls her initial discomfort with her new life, Irene has again become a representative of Holocaust survivors, speaking about her own personal experience to schools and in a recent documentary.
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