Walter L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Walter L., who was born in Ortelsburg, Germany (presently Szczynto, Poland) in 1922, the elder of two children. He recounts attending school; moving to Ko?nigsberg (presently Kaliningrad, Russia); antisemitic harassment; participating in Makabi ha-tsa?ir; his bar mitzvah in 1935; having to leave school; attending a Zionist agricultural school in Ahrensdorf; hospitalization in Berlin; apprenticing with a dentist; emigrating with his family to the United States via Hamburg in June 1938, with assistance from relatives there; marriage; and the births of four daughters. Mr. L. notes most of his relatives were killed in the Holocaust. He shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- L., Walter, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Child survivors.
- Jews -- Migration.
- Jewish refugees.
- Bar mitzvah.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Germany.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Ahrensdorf (Germany)
- Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
- Szczytno (Olsztyn, Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat