Kurt S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Kurt S., who was born in Krefeld, Germany in 1924. He recalls being barred from university in 1938 due to anti-Jewish restrictions; working on a Jewish training farm in Silesia; Gestapo dissolution of the farm in 1941; returning to Krefeld; and transport with his parents to the Ri?ga ghetto in December. Mr. S. describes unloading ships; refusing a ship captain's offer to smuggle him to Denmark in order to remain with his parents; work details in Ri?ga, Salaspils, Kaiserwald and other places; frequent deaths from starvation, hangings, and shootings; narrowly escaping execution; his father's death in Kaiserwald; ship transport to Stutthof, where he last saw his mother in April 1944; volunteering for work in Buchenwald, Essen (a Krupp factory), and Jena; the death march in spring 1945; and liberation by United States troops. He recounts returning to Krefeld; learning his family of 180 had all been killed; living in a displaced persons camp near Frankfurt; marriage; and emigration to the United States in April 1946. Mr. S. provides many details of ghetto and concentration camp life; the aborted revolt by Jewish police in Ri?ga; and his brother's story (emigration to England after Kristallnacht, incarceration as an enemy alien, and deportation to Canada).

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)