Herbert K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-219) [videorecording] / interviewed by Laurel Vlock and Dori Laub, July 21, 1980.

Boston, Mass. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 32 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Herbert K., who was born in Peiskretscham, Germany in 1926. He discusses his prewar childhood; beatings and ostracism by classmates; damage to his family's business on Kristallnacht; their unsuccessful emigration attempt from Hamburg aboard the luxury liner St. Louis; the return to France, where he was separated from his parents; and life in a children's home in Montmorency, outside Paris. He relates his move to unoccupied France and employment in a bakery; internment in a camp in Creuse by French militia; and his escape and subsequent illegal life with false papers. Mr. K. describes Spanish and Swiss refusals of his attempts at entry into these countries; his life near Lyon pretending to be a Catholic farmer; the wartime deaths of most of his immediate family; and his postwar reunion with his brother in Paris. Other postwar experiences discussed include his work for a Jewish organization in a French children's home, through which he met Elie Wiesel; emigration to the United States; and his life thereafter.

June 01, 2002

Herbert K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-219). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Herbert K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-219). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)