Landon Rice Testimony 1

Mr. Neuburger

English 102 118

March 16, 2013

Survivor Testimony Edith Coliver

            Edith Coliver was born Karlsiuhe, Germany in 1992.  While growing up, Coliver remembers being told what typical Aryan children were supposed to look like.  After 1937, school in Germany became segregated meaning that Jews and non-jews went to different schools.  Coliver’s family has been in Germany for 300 years.  When Edith was around 13 or 14, her school teacher approached her mother and told her that Jews have not character, so her parents sent her to England to continue her schooling.

            One year after Edith arrived in London, England, her dad asked her to come home and then they would move it America.  In August of 1938, Edith and her family moved to America to avoid the upcoming war.  The first day that Edith arrived in America, it was the same day Sudetenland was invaded.  After moving to New York City, she moved to San Francisco where she attended George Washington High School, and then she soon went to Berkeley.  

            After graduating Berkeley, Coliver moved to Washington D.C. where she landed a job as an Senator’s assistant.  She did not like this job, so she began to look for a job else where.  Edith Coliver was bilingual, which means she is fluent in two languages which are German and French.  With this skill she found a job as and interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials.  She wrote to her parents saying that she was going to Nuremberg, but her parents did not like it because it was she had escaped.  While in Germany, Coliver interpreted the trials of many high official Nazi leaders.  Some of the Germans were saying  that they had no idea what was going on, which Edith know was untrue because everyone in America knew.