Herbert F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Herbert F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929, an only child. He recalls attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German occupation in March 1938; expulsion from school; observing violence against Jews; traveling with his parents and uncle to Cologne, Aachen, then Breda; being smuggled to Belgium; attending school in Antwerp; German invasion on May 10, 1940; his father's arrest; traveling with his mother and uncle to Toulouse; his uncle's arrest (he escaped and went to the United States); his mother placing him with a Jewish farmer in Fontenilles; his father joining him in July (he had been in Gurs); their visit to his mother in Toulouse in November; her return to Antwerp; moving with the farmer to Pujaudran; his bar mitzvah; arrest in August 1942; deportation to Drancy, then Cosel; all men aged sixteen to fifty being removed from the train; joining them to be with his father; his father's selection to remain and his to return to the train; not obeying; a German advising him to say he was sixteen and rejoin his father; slave labor in Tarnowitz constructing railroads; and a German engineer protecting him from beatings and arduous work.

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