![]() ![]() She says that there are still Latvian Jews who blame the German Jews for the deaths of their families, but that nonetheless the remaining Latvian Jews behaved wonderfully to the Germans. She explains that Lange carried out the killings in a very haphazard fashion, that in fact it did not make sense to kill skilled workers to replace them with the predominantly middle-class German Jews. Video drops out.ĬR 4: 01:04:19 Lanzmann asks Schneider to return to the subject of whether Latvian Jews had actually been killed to make room for the German Jews. She says that in the course of research for her book she discovered that the widely held notion that the Latvian Jews had been killed to make room for the German Jews was incorrect, although this impression was fostered by the SS personnel in the ghetto. Lanzmann asks her why she wrote her book about the Riga ghetto. ![]() Gertrude Schneider is shown sitting on her couch. At Lanzmann's urging, the women sing several Yiddish songs they learned in the ghetto.įILM ID 3221 - Camera Rolls #3,4,5 - 01:01:00 to 01:26:41ĬR 3: A few seconds of a street scene in New York, then Dr. The interview, which also includes Schneider's mother and sister, covers topics such as the perception of Viennese Jews by Latvian Jews, sex and pregnancy in the ghetto, and the Madeportation Aktion. ![]() Gertrude Schneider was a Viennese Jew deported with her family to the Riga ghetto. ![]()
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