Fred R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Fred R., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1920. He recalls his father's death in 1931; experiencing antisemitism beginning in 1933; the impact of the Nuremberg laws; transferring to a Jewish school in 1935, then to a school in Milan in 1936; and emigration to the United States in 1938. Mr. R. recounts his mother joining him in 1939; his draft into the United States military in 1943; serving in the Office of Strategic Services in London and Paris; broadcasting from London to Germany; interrogating a German general in Paris; spying in Aachen; participating in Dachau's liberation; and General William Donovan assigning him to the war crime trials at Nuremberg. He discusses the Nazi doctors' cases and human medical experiments documented at the trials; interrogating Go?ring; his disappointment as the severity of the sentences diminished; and sharing his experiences with his son.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Donovan, William J. -- (William Joseph), -- 1883-1959.
- GoĚring, Hermann, -- 1893-1946.
- R., Fred, -- 1920-2005.
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- United States. -- Office of Strategic Services.
Subjects
- Draft -- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Nuremberg laws.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Germany.
- War crime trials -- Germany.
- Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
Places
- Germany.
- Nuremberg (Germany)
- London (England)
- Milan (Italy)
- Aachen (Germany)
- Paris (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat