Kurt R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2944) [videorecording] / interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman, Novemeber 10, 1993.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 24 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Rawitt, Kurt. Interview 1290. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Kurt R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. He recalls graduating from medical school in 1937; his brother's marriage and emigration to Palestine in 1938; his marriage; futile efforts to emigrate to Palestine; fleeing to Trieste in 1939, leaving his parents and wife in Vienna (his parents were deported to Minsk and killed); arrest and transfer to a camp in Eboli; working as a doctor's assistant; release with assistance from the camp doctor; living in Todi, then in Umbertide; German invasion; arrest; escaping to Todi from a train station in Perugia; local Italians arranging to hide him in Perugia; liberation by British troops; reunion in 1947 with his wife (she survived several concentration camps); his son's birth in 1948; practicing medicine in Todi; living in a displaced persons camp in Bagnoli; and emigrating to the United States with his family in March 1950. Dr. R. shows photographs.

June 01, 2002

Kurt R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2944). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Kurt R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2944). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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