Heinz P. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Heinz P., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1926. He describes his Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; his parents' divorce in 1929; his father joining the Nazi party; his father's remarriage; Kristallnacht in Oberkassel; moving to live with his father in Berlin in 1939; the outbreak of war; his father arranging his admission to a boarding school in Garmisch; his father's death in December 1941; returning to Oberkassel; his mother's deportation to Theresienstadt; living with his aunts in Dortmund, then Dresden, in 1942; working at a photo studio, then at an ammunition factory in December 1944; the bombardment of Dresden; fleeing to Nuremberg, then Mu?nzberg; an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Swiss border; his arrest and interrogation; admitting that he is half Jewish; forced labor in Salza; the death march; escaping to Sigmaringen; liberation by French troops; traveling with a French hospital to Baden-Baden; reunion with his mother in Du?sseldorf; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. He discusses his difficult adjustment to a new life, and his experiences resulting in numerous health problems.

3 videocassettes