Alice Lang Rosen - August 5, 1991
Conclusion
What--when--are there any things you, um, experience--something you might see or hear that, um, perhaps touches off a memory?
Yes, I could for years and years I could not see a film about Germany, Nazis...
Husband: She not--hasn't been to the Holocaust series.
I have not been to the Holocaust yet. Keep saying to Bill we have to go but I haven't pushed and he hasn't said, "Lets go," and I haven't--I uh, you know...
Husband: Well, she used to have dreams all the time and that frightened her and I didn't want her to--now she's becoming better but I don't want her to look back and see...
I still--when a movie comes on that has to do with the war, you know an old movie, I say, "Bill, you either watch it upstairs or turn it off." I, I don't want...
Not even a Holocaust movie, just a war movie.
No, no, I can't.
Um, what kind of dreams?
Uh, somebody is always chasing me uh, the Gestapo. I see the soldiers, I see the barbed wire and, uh...
[interruption in interview]
Let me ask you again about the dreams. These dreams then have specific locations--the barbed wires...
Yeah I see the barbed wires in the concentration camp, yes, and I wake up in a cold, you know, cold sweat. And uh, they're getting a little bit better as I'm getting older. They were very frequent in the--in my younger--when I was younger, very frequent. Getting a little--getting better. And of course, I've been happily married for thirty-six years and everything's been really fine. That has a lot to do, I think, with, you know...
You said earlier that um, that when you saw the uniforms after--do you still have that kind of reaction to uniforms?
No, no...
Husband: Oh no, not now, no.
...no, no. That was just at...
At that point.
...at that point after--right after the war when I didn't know, you know. I saw uniform, I was scared. But I was then told they were good uniforms and they were there to help us, you know, child.
Does anything run through your mind during the day, you know, sort of...
Husband: You mean through the past?
...intermittent? Yeah.
No, I don't think so. No, no. Only I think when I, when I read about it, you know, or something like that, you know, if, if I--now, you know, more--I meet more people with accents now and I'm wondering, you know, "Where are they from? What did they go through? Or what, what happened?" and things like that, you know. But not, not really, no.
Well, anything else you want to add to this that, um...
No, I, I just hope--I appreciate you coming and I hope I helped. If I can help in some way someone for this should never ever happen again--no war like that ever--if it can help that I think I have done my share if I at least speak up.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
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