Henry S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3107) [videorecording] / interviewed by Fay Davis, August 10, 1983.

Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society, 1983.

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

English

Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, one of two children. He recounts attending school; his older brother's death from illness; the Anschluss; expropriation of his father's business; antisemitic harassment; his father obtaining visas for Panama through his brother in Holland; traveling to Amsterdam; German invasion in 1940; working at a rubber plant; a general strike in 1941; hiding during a raid (several friends were captured and deported); traveling illegally to Belgium with a group of friends; his parents joining him; being smuggled with a group to Paris, Dijon, then Chalon-sur-Saône; separation from his parents (they were deported and killed); returning to Belgium; being hidden by Dutch anti-Nazis, then the underground in over seventy-five locations, including Brussels; serving as a courier for the underground in Antwerp; meeting his future wife; liberation; marriage in Antwerp in 1947; living in Amsterdam; his son's birth; emigration to Canada in 1951; and the births of two more children. He shows documents and photographs.

June 01, 2002

Henry S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3107). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Henry S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3107). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)