Eric S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eric S., who was born in Gymnich, Germany, in 1915. Mr. S. recalls childhood in a small Catholic town; going to Cologne in 1930 to learn office skills; being forced by Nazis to leave his position with a Jewish company in Frankfurt; returning home to help in the family tannery; pillaging of the business during Kristallnacht; incarceration with his two brothers; transport to Dachau; their release because they had documents to leave Germany; emigration with his brothers to Kenya (his parents remained and perished); and arrival in Mombasa. He tells of a Jewish organization which paid their landing fees, and agreeing in return to work on a plantation near Nairobi; learning English and Swahili; settlement assistance received from the local Jewish community; brief internment as an enemy alien in 1939; supplying meat to a camp for Italian POWs from Ethiopia; unsuccessful efforts to join his sister in South Africa; and emigrating to America in 1949.

1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)