Henry S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Harry S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, one of two children. He recounts attending school; his older brother's death from illness; the Anschluss; expropriation of his father's business; antisemitic harassment; his father obtaining visas for Panama through his brother in Holland; traveling to Amsterdam; German invasion in 1940; working at a rubber plant; a general strike in 1941; hiding during a raid (several friends were captured and deported); traveling illegally to Belgium with a group of friends; his parents joining him; being smuggled with a group to Paris, Dijon, then Chalon-sur-Sao?ne; separation from his parents (they were deported and killed); returning to Belgium; being hidden by Dutch anti-Nazis, then the underground in over seventy-five locations, including Brussels; serving as a courier for the underground in Antwerp; meeting his future wife; liberation; marriage in Antwerp in 1947; living in Amsterdam; his son's birth; emigration to Canada in 1951; and the births of two more children. He shows documents and 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
- S., Henry, -- 1921-
Subjects
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Jewish refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Dijon (France)
- Chalon-sur-SaoĚne (France)
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Paris (France)
- Austria.
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat