Ernest H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2607) [videorecording] / interviewed by Frances Proctor Cohen and Helen Katz, August 17, 1994.

New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 59 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Ernest H., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1921. He describes his assimilated and wealthy family background; antisemitic incidents at school; his father's belief that Hitler's rise to power would not last long enough to impact them; the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses on April 1, 1933; completing his education in Switzerland; visiting his parents for the last time during the summer of 1938; internment in a Swiss camp after the German invasion of France in 1940; being chosen by a Joint representative for emigration to the Dominican Republic; and traveling via France and Spain to Lisbon, then by ship via Ellis Island to Santo Domingo. Mr. H. recounts receiving his parents' last letter in 1941; learning, after the war, that his parents had been deported to Rīga; and emigrating to the United States in 1945. He notes there were good sources of information in prewar Germany; his parents' reluctance to leave; and never considering himself German.

June 01, 2002

Ernest H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2607). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Ernest H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2607). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)