Alfred B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Alfred B., a non-Jew, who was born in the Schaerbeek section of Brussels, Belgium in 1917. He recalls frequent visits to relatives in Paris and Normandy; attending school, then university, in Brussels; strong anti-Rexist feelings, resulting in active participation in a liberal student group; military enlistment; call-up in 1939; German invasion; capture; transfer to Emmerich; assistance from the Red Cross; forced labor in Alt Garge and Fallingbostel; a German official taking him to his home in Hannover; release; returning home; attending university; working with the resistance; transfer to university in Liege; arrest by the Gestapo in 1942; imprisonment for six months with other students and professors in St. Gilles, then in the Citadelle de Huy; release; returning to Brussels; liberation by British troops; his career as a professor; and active participation in a Huy former prisoners group. Mr. B. discusses knowing during the war about anti-Jewish restrictions, the Association des juifs de Belgique, deportations and the camps, but not about the Nazi extermination policy.
Extent and Medium
4 videocassettes
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- B., Alfred, -- 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Alt Garge (Concentration camp)
- Rex (Political party : Belgium)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Association des juifs de Belgique.
Subjects
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Belgian.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- Prisoners of war -- Germany.
- Postwar experiences.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Belgian.
- Prisoners of war -- Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
Places
- Normandy (France)
- Hannover (Germany)
- LieĚge (Belgium)
- Fallingbostel (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Belgium.
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Paris (France)
- Emmerich (Germany : Concentration camp))
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat