Rudolph H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Rudolph H., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Dr. H. recounts attending a Jewish and a German public school, then medical school; passing his state exams, but being unable to obtain his degree due to antisemitic regulations; obtaining his medical degree in Bern, Switzerland; encountering a friend there who later assassinated a Swiss Nazi leader; working in a German hospital; one sister's emigration to Paris; following her in 1937; emigration to the United States in July 1938; trying to obtain emigration documents for his parents and sister who remained in Frankfurt; obtaining documents for their emigration to England; their inability to leave because war had begun; his parents' deaths from illness; learning his sister and her children in Paris and his sister and her children in Frankfurt were deported (no one survived); draft into the United States military in 1944; and hoping to serve in Europe, but being posted to Alaska.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- H., Rudolph.
Subjects
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Paris (France)
- Bern (Switzerland)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat