Kurt G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Dr. Kurt G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1915. He recalls his father's military service in World War I; seeing his father for the first time after his return from a prisoner-of-war camp; the family's move to Innsbruck; anti-Semitic attacks at school; participation in Zionist activities; their return to Vienna in 1933; attending medical school; his father's termination by his German employer; his father killing his replacement; and his arrest. He recounts completing medical school exams after his father's arrest; German occupation in 1938; receiving a message from his father that they should emigrate; his father's execution in 1939; obtaining a visa for Shanghai via Switzerland; a three day imprisonment; traveling to Switzerland; completing medical school in Lausanne; receiving entry papers for the United States; obtainig ship passage in Paris; the outbreak of war; his arrest as an enemy alien in Bordeaux (his passport was German); a month's forced labor; and emigration to the United States. He shows several photographs and documents.

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