Franz F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4163
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Franz F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, one of two brothers. He recounts his family's relative affluence; antisemitic harassment at school; visiting grandparents in Opava; expulsion from his scout troop; joining Makabi ha-tsaĘťir; the Anschluss; joining a hachsharah in Germany; visiting Berlin; his brother joining a hachsharah in France; Kristallnacht; visiting his parents in Vienna; emigration to Palestine via Vienna and Trieste in 1939; receiving letters from his parents through the Red Cross (later, the letters stopped); enlisting in the British army; serving in Italy and on Vis island; cooperating with partisans; interrogating German POWs; serving with partisans in Albania; postings to England, then Egypt; discharge; returning to Tel Aviv; and marriage. Mr. F. discusses his brother's emigration to Switzerland, then Mexico; and learning his parents had been deported and killed.

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., Franz, -- 1923-

Corporate Bodies

  • Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaĘťir (Association)
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Subjects

  • Crystal Night, 1938.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Child survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Albania.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, British.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Partisans.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Jewish refugees.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.

Places

  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
  • Opava (Czech Republic)
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Austria.
  • England.
  • Egypt.
  • Vis Island (Croatia)
  • Albania.
  • Palestine -- Emigration and immigration.
  • Trieste (Italy)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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