Hans F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (currently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1928. He recalls antisemitic street violence; the destruction during Kristallnacht; his father's six week incarceration in Buchenwald; his emigration to Cuba upon release; embarking in Hamburg with his mother and sister on the St. Louis to join his father; Cuba denying landing permission; returning to Antwerp; traveling to France; living by himself in an OSE children's home in Montmorency; joining his mother and sister in Laval after German invasion; embarking for Cuba; a week on Ellis Island en route; living in Cuba a year; and emigration to the United States in 1941. Mr. F. discusses his parents' adjustment difficulties; marriage to a woman from Breslau; and becoming a university professor.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Hans, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- St. Louis (Ship)
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
- World Union OSE.
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Orphanages -- France.
- Child survivors.
- OSE.
- OZE.
Places
- Cuba.
- Laval (Mayenne, France)
- Breslau (Germany)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Montmorency (France)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Germany.
- WrocĹaw (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat