Henry A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-940) [videorecording] / interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Barbara Hadley Katz, October 9, 1987.

New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987.

1 videorecording (2 hr., 3 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Allegra and Henry A. Holocaust testimony [with wife] (HVT-941), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

This testimony may not be used without prior permission of the donor or his wife or son until 2000.

Videotape testimony of Henry A., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes his education; working in his father's coffee house; the absence of antisemitism in Salonika; importing auto parts and radios in the 1930s; his arranged marriage; the birth of his son in 1939; and the outbreak of war with Italy in 1940. He recalls military training at Nauplion in 1941; returning to Salonika after the German occupation; refusing to divulge names of customers who bought radios; becoming a textile merchant; being fined for "overcharging" German customers; paying a doctor to certify him an invalid to avoid forced labor; and ghettoization of Salonika in February 1943. Mr. A. relates going into hiding with his wife and son in March; numerous Greek Orthodox and Muslim people who hid them; deportation of his in-laws; entry of communist partisans into Salonika in October 1944 after the Germans had left; translation work for British Military Liaison/Greece; a visit to the United States in 1946; and founding an export business in New York. Mr. A. discusses a memoir he is writing for his children and his gratitude to the many friends and officials who aided him during the war.

June 01, 2002

Henry A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-940). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holcaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Henry A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-940). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holcaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)