Walter S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Steinbach, Germany in 1924. This testimony includes all of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-146). Additional topics discussed include his father's release from Dachau; his sister's emigration to the United States under Quaker auspices in 1941; his parents' deportation to France; being beaten by the Gestapo (he could not speak of this for years); and being forced to submit to homosexual advances by veteran prisoners in a concentration camp. He recounts returning to Steinbach after liberation; meeting his wife in a displaced persons camp near Frankfurt; emigrating to the United States; becoming reacquainted with his sister; and coping with multiple sclerosis.
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
- S., Walter, -- 1924-1995.
Corporate Bodies
- Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft.
- Altenburg (Concentration camp : Thuringia, Germany)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Forced labor.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hospitals in concentration camps.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Refugee camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Child survivors.
- Sexual harassment.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Escapes.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
Places
- Steinbach (Germany)
- Germany.
- Mannheim (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat