Patricia vander Elst on the Nuremberg Trials

Patricia vander Elst, née Jordan, (1925-2005) was a pioneer simultaneous interpreter who got her debut at the first sustained use of simultaneous at the first Nuremberg Trial (The Trial of the Major War Criminals) which started on 20 November 1945 and ended on 1 October 1946. Pat was 21 years old when she was recruited and worked during the last 4 months of the trial. Secondary post-traumatic stress was not a recognized condition for interpreters at the time but clearly many of the Nuremberg interpreters were deeply marked. As Pat puts it: "I was 21 when I started work and 10 years older when I left (4 months later)".

This interview with Pat from 2003 is an excerpt from the VideoSCIC production "Living Memory" by Susan Roberts.

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