Fred H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Fred H., who was born in Ulm, Germany in 1919. He recalls a two-year apprenticeship in Freidrichshafen; his mother's death in 1931; realizing that Germany was no place for Jews when the family store was vandalized in 1933; his two sisters' emigration to the United States in 1936 and 1937; his sisters arranging his passage to Cuba; embarkation on the St. Louis in Hamburg; learning they could not disembark in Cuba; efforts by the Joint to assist them; kindness from the crew; returning to Europe; debarkation in Antwerp; living in Brussels; his family arranging exit papers; emigration to London, then the United States; and his father joining them two weeks later via Italy. He shows documents.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
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People
- H., Fred , -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- St. Louis (Ship)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Subjects
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- London (England)
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Friedrichshafen (Germany)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Germany.
- Ulm (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat