Harry C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Harry C., who was born in Narvik, Norway, to a British father and Danish mother. He recalls a stepbrother from his father's first marriage; German bombardment; incarceration in Grini for about nine months; his mother's parents bribing a high Nazi official to free them; their "escape" to Copenhagen, with assistance from the underground in both countries (he never saw his father again); being warned of German deportations in fall 1943; departing from Kastrup to Landskrona, Sweden on boats, an underground operation; living in Göteborg until the end of the war; returning to Narvik; moving to Copenhagen due to his mother's illness; his mother's remarriage; moving to Göteborg; his mother's wish that he live in Israel in order to marry a Jewish woman; living on a kibbutz; meeting his future wife, an American; their marriage in the United States in 1963; returning to Israel; and settling in the United States. Mr. C. notes learning that his father, grandfather, and three uncles were deported to Auschwitz together; his brother's death in 1977; his mother's death at age sixty-one; and his sons' lack of interest in his experiences.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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Process Info
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People
- C., Harry, -- 1939-
Corporate Bodies
- Grini (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Denmark.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Norway.
- Brothers.
- Mothers and sons.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
Places
- Israel.
- Göteborg (Sweden)
- Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Landskrona (Sweden)
- Kastrup (Denmark)
- Norway.
- Narvik (Norway)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat