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Author/Creator:F., Henry, 1919-
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Title:Henry F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-697) [videorecording] / interviewed by Bonnie Dwork and Brenda Stiefel and interpreted by Margaret Ransom, April 14, 1986.
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Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1986.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (30 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.0697)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:Copy of exit document available in repository.
This interview was conducted in American sign language and interpreted into spoken English.
3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Henry F., who was born in Meerholz, Germany in 1919. He recalls his father, a kosher butcher, his mother, a dressmaker and an older brother; attending a Jewish school for the deaf in Berlin from the age of five for ten years; Nazi harassment; graduation in 1935; and apprenticeship to a tailor in Frankfurt, despite his desire to become an engineer, because of anti-Jewish restrictions. He describes his brother's emigration to the United States in 1937; knowing many deaf people who were sterilized by Nazi law; moving to Mannheim; difficulties obtaining documents (he shows his exit document); emigration to the United States; work in a defense plant; learning English and English sign language; learning the print trade after the war; marriage; and his children and grandchildren. Mr. F. emphasizes the importance of future generations learning about events in Germany and shows a photograph of his class from the Jewish school for the deaf of whom only two (including himself) survived.
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Cite as:Henry F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-697). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:F., Henry, 1919-
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Deaf.
People with disabilities.
Families.
Jews--Migrations.
Jewish refugees.
Germany.
Meerholz (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Mannheim (Germany)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Ransom, Margaret, interpreter.
Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.
Stiefel, Brenda, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1001182