Gerhart R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-764) [videorecording] / interviewed by Laurel Vlock, May 21, 1980.

Jerusalem, Israel : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 23 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Gerhart R., who was born in Berlin. He discusses his pre-1933 career as a junior lawyer and state employee in Berlin; his dismissal when Hitler came to power; his departure from Germany in 1933; and his post as legal secretary for the newly created World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Geneva. He relates his struggle for the rights of the Danzig Jews; the successful WJC campaign in 1938 against the anti-Semitic government of Romania; his responsibility to inform WJC officials in Geneva and New York of wartime atrocities; and his sources of information about Nazi medical experiments, deportations, and plans for total extermination in summer 1942. He describes the unwillingness of the allied governments, the Vatican, and the Red Cross to accept or publicize Hitler's plans; his views on the reason for this and for the Allied failure to bomb Auschwitz; and his efforts to solicit money for rescue attempts. Mr. R. also tells of his postwar involvement with displaced persons camps.

June 01, 2002

Gerhart R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-764). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Gerhart R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-764). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)

Lawyers.