Vera Mitteldorf talks about her relationship to Germany and the impact other Mauthausen survivors had on her later life. Watch Vera's clip of testimony and read her short biography below.
Vera Mitteldorf was born in Berlin in 1927. Because she was Jewish, the Nazis arrested her and sent her first to Theresienstadt ghetto, then to Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, Flossenbürg concentration camp, and last to Mauthausen, where she was liberated by the US Army. Vera’s whole family was killed by the Nazis. After the war, Mitteldorf returned to Berlin and became a teacher. This interview was conducted by the USC Shoah Foundation in 1996.