Fred H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4357) [videorecording] / interviewed by Laurel Vlock , October 6, 1980.

New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980.

1 videorecording (50 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Hilb, Fred. Interview 26610. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Fred H., who was born in Ulm, Germany in 1919. He recalls a two-year apprenticeship in Freidrichshafen; his mother's death in 1931; realizing that Germany was no place for Jews when the family store was vandalized in 1933; his two sisters' emigration to the United States in 1936 and 1937; his sisters arranging his passage to Cuba; embarkation on the St. Louis in Hamburg; learning they could not disembark in Cuba; efforts by the Joint to assist them; kindness from the crew; returning to Europe; debarkation in Antwerp; living in Brussels; his family arranging exit papers; emigration to London, then the United States; and his father joining them two weeks later via Italy. He shows documents.

February 29, 2008

Fred H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4357). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Fred H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4357). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)