Charles F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2901
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Charles F., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1923. He remembers SA street marches; his parents' divorce; attending boarding school in Austria; moving to Florence with his mother; moving to Berlin because his father wished him to have a German education; the 1936 Olympics; attending boarding school in Coburg; destruction of his school on Kristallnacht; his father's arrest; moving to Paris with his mother; attending boarding school; German invasion; joining his mother in La Bourboule; their move to Nice; attending hotel management school; traveling illegally to Port-Bou, Spain via Perpignan and Cerbe?re when Italy invaded; their move to Lisbon; emigration to the United States in 1941; being drafted into the United States military in 1943; interrogating German prisoners of war; entering Nordhausen upon its liberation; assisting in preparations for the Nuremberg Trials; and his father's emigration to the United States (he survived hiding in Berlin) and subsequent return to Germany. Mr. F. shows photographs.

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

  • F., Charles, -- 1923-

Corporate Bodies

  • Nordhausen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Liberator.
  • Crystal Night, 1938.
  • Child survivors.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Refugees, Jewish.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
  • Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
  • War crime trials -- Germany.

Places

  • La Bourboule (France)
  • Paris (France)
  • Coburg (Germany)
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Nice (France)
  • Port-Bou (Spain)
  • Cerbère (France)
  • Perpignan (France)
  • Florence (Italy)
  • Nuremberg (Germany)
  • Germany.
  • Lisbon (Portugal)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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