August D. Holocaust testimonies
Abstract
Videotape testimony of August D., a Romani, who was born in 1914. He recalls serving in the German military in Braunschweig; discharge in 1938 due to anti-Romani laws; arrest on July 14; transfer from Hannover to Sachsenhausen; slave labor in a Heinkel factory; transfer to Dachau after thirty months; liberation in Czechoslovakia; learning his parents and four siblings had perished in Auschwitz; his desire to forget these experiences and inability to do so; and receiving compensation for seven years in concentration camps at the rate of five marks per day. Mr. D.'s sons and others discuss the current neo-Nazi movement; pernicious and frequent anti-Romani and anti-Jewish threats and violence; lack of government response to their plight; and their affinity for Israel and sense of brotherhood with Jews.
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
- D., August, -- 1914-
Corporate Bodies
- Ernst Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke.
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Romanies -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Romanies -- Nazi persecution -- Germany.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Romani.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates.
Places
- Hannover (Germany)
- Braunschweig (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat