Otto F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Otto F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1903. He remembers cordial relations with non-Jews; his legal career; a professional relationship with Arthur Seyss-Inquart; marriage in 1929; anti-Jewish restrictions after German annexation forbidding him to practice law; soldiers forcing him to clean floors simply to humiliate Jews; his sisters' emigration to England; acquiring U.S. visas through his wife's family; a non-Jewish friend obtaining official statements certifying them free from tax obligations, which allowed them to leave; a painful departure from their parents and other relatives (they never saw them again); briefly staying in Paris and Montre?al; traveling to the United States; establishing a successful business after the war; visiting Germany on business trips and Vienna in 1972 for his high school reunion; and learning about the deaths of several family members in camps and mass shootings. Mr. F. 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
- Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, -- 1892-1946.
- F., Otto, -- 1903-
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migration.
- Husband and wife.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Paris (France)
- Austria.
- MontreĚal (QueĚbec)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat