Alfred S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-865) [videorecording] / interviewed by Debra Weinberg and Barry Cohen, February 16, 1992.

Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1992.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 46 min.) : col.

Associated material: Strauss, Alfred. Interview 21020. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Alfred S., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1921. Mr. S. describes his family's strong sense of German identification and patriotism; the appearance of Nazis and antisemitism in his school; his growing sense of Jewish identity; alienation from his parents due to their refusal to recognize the danger of antisemitism; and participation in Jewish youth groups including Hashomer Hatzair. He recalls his father's death in 1934; non-Jewish friends protecting him from police; voluntary transfer to a Jewish school in 1936; attending the ORT school in Berlin from 1937 onward; Kristallnacht; legal dissolution of his youth group and ORT school; increasing danger for Jews; departing for England in August 1939 with a children's transport organized by ORT; and temporary internment in a camp until the ORT school was ready in Leeds. Mr. S. relates being classified as an enemy alien after Dunkerque; deportation to Australia; the kindness of the Australians; repatriation to England in 1943; return to ORT school; joining the military; reunion with his mother in France; working for the United States Army Intelligence; and emigration to the United States in 1947.

June 01, 2002

Alfred S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-865). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Alfred S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-865). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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