Otto L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3952) [videorecording] / interviewed by Raymond Kaplan, February 28, 1997.

Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1997.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 26 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Otto L., who was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland in 1909 and raised in Konstanz, Germany. He recounts his family's long history in Germany and Switzerland; his parents' non-involvement with Judaism; active participation in gymnastics, swimming, and scouting; never experiencing antisemitism until an encounter with a non-local scout group; his bar mitzvah; an apprenticeship in Nuremberg for two years; friendship with a police officer who provided him with information that later saved his life; working in Bochum for thirteen months, then for his father; a job in Augsburg beginning in 1932; exclusion from the swim club after Hitler's election in 1933; his mother warning him he was wanted by the Gestapo in Konstanz; fleeing to Switzerland; living with his grandparents in Zurich, then with an aunt in Czechoslovakia; obtaining a ticket for Palestine in Prague; illegally entering Palestine; visiting his parents in Switzerland in 1937; emigration with them to the United States; marriage; and his career.

June 01, 2002

Otto L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3952). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Otto L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3952). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)