Gerald L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1908) [videorecording] / interviewed by Naomi Rappaport, January 30, 1992.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 31 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Gerald L., who was born in Gumbinnen, Germany (now Gusev, Russia) in 1929. He recalls his parents' divorce; living with his father and stepmother; moving to Königsberg (Kaliningrad), then Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland); emigrating with his father, stepmother, and other family members to Shanghai in July 1939; his father's death six months later; living with his stepmother among the Jewish refugees in a Chinese working-class district; financial support from his uncle's dental practice; attending a Jewish school (the center of his social life); Japanese occupation; confinement to Hongkew; the self-contained yet diverse Jewish community; viewing Chinese life at a distance in spite of close physical proximity; religious services conducted in German; his bar mitzvah; working in a silk factory; joining his mother in Colombia after the war; living in a German Jewish community; moving to the United States seven years later; and marriage. Mr. L. discusses visiting Shanghai with his son and their plans to visit Poland and Germany. He shows photographs and documents.

June 01, 2002

Gerald L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1908). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Gerald L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1908). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)