Rudy B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1613
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1915. Mr. B. recounts attending a Jewish school; working in a shoe factory; increasing antisemitism; studying English; his older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1933; emigration to the United States in 1936 (he never saw his parents again); military draft in 1941; officer training school; assignment to military intelligence in 1943; deployment to London in May 1944; German rocket attacks; landing in Normandy; participating in the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge; entering Frankfurt; searching for friends and relatives; visiting his former home; entering Buchenwald after liberation; complete shock observing piles of corpses and emaciated prisoners; George Patton's visit; marching local Germans through the camp (they claimed no knowledge of it, which he found impossible to believe); attending Rosh ha-Shanah services in a partially reconstructed synagogue in Frankfurt; assignment as a military occupation official in Marburg; and learning his mother had died in ?o?dz? ghetto. Mr. B. discusses the deaths of many relatives in the Holocaust and visiting his sister in Palestine in 1945. He shows photographs and documents.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

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

  • Patton, George S. -- (George Smith), -- 1885-1945.
  • B., Rudy, -- 1915-

Corporate Bodies

  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
  • Jews -- Migration.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Refugees, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.

Places

  • Marburg (Germany)
  • Paris (France)
  • London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1945.
  • Germany -- History -- 1945-1955.
  • United States -- Armed Forces -- Europe.
  • Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
  • Germany.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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