Alfred B. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4189
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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

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