Fred B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Fred B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. He recalls antisemitic incidents; the boycott of Jewish businesses, including his family's, in 1933; anti-Jewish restrictions; Kristallnacht; his brother's and sister's emigration; non-Jews bringing them food; arrest with his parents in February 1943; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his parents (he never saw them again); transfer to Monowitz; return to Auschwitz; a variety of work details; contacts with women who worked in the Union Kommando and who sabotaged munitions they produced; rejecting homosexual advances from a Polish political prisoner; the death march in January 1945 to Gross-Rosen; transport to Bolkenhain, Hirschberg, and Buchenwald; posing as a Frenchman; self-liberation of Buchenwald; and the arrival of United States troops on April 11, 1945. Mr. B. recounts his hospitalization; moving to Fulda; efforts to regain his family property; emigration to the United States in 1946; reunion with his sister and brother; marriage in 1949; and establishing his family and business. He discusses many details of concentration camp life and visits to Berlin.

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