Hans F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4361
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Hans F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wrocław, Poland). He recounts anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's arrest and incarceration in Buchenwald on Kristallnacht; his release in December 1938 based on his departure from Germany followed by his emigration to Cuba in January 1939; his father's friend arranging for Mr. F., his sister, and mother to emigrate to Cuba; the painful separation from his grandparents (he suspected he would never see them again); buying permits in Hamburg at the Cuban consulate; their departure on the St. Louis; the Cuban government not allowing debarkation; seeing his father on a small boat circling the ship; returning to Europe; debarkation in France; being sent to Laval; living in a children's home near Paris; returning to his mother in Laval; obtaining emigration permits for Cuba with assistance from the Joint; and their ship waiting in Southampton until a convey was formed.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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., Hans.

Corporate Bodies

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
  • St. Louis (Ship)

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Men.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Crystal Night, 1938.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Jewish refugees.
  • Orphanages -- France.
  • Child survivors.

Places

  • Germany.
  • Paris (France)
  • Laval (Mayenne, France)
  • Hamburg (Germany)
  • Wrocław (Poland)
  • Southampton (England)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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