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Author/Creator:K., William, 1912-
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Title:William K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1334) [videorecording] / interviewed by Irvin Fishbein and Barbara McPherson, September 10, 1989.
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Published/Created:Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 37 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.1334)
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:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of William K., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1912. He recalls participation in Zionist organizations as a youth; his parents' divorce; joining his mother and sister in Berlin; employment at a department store; declining a promotion for fear of provoking antisemitism; the public hitting of the store's owner on April 1, 1933; loss of own his job; attempts to leave for Palestine; meeting his future wife and their engagement; and embarkation for Shanghai in October 1938. He recounts assistance from the Japanese upon their arrival; organization of the Jewish community into Ashkenaz and Sephardim; the influx of Jewish refugees following Kristallnacht; marriage to his fiancee; ghettoization in Hongkew in 1943; worsening conditions; the community's emphasis on educating the children; Allied bombing of the ghetto; liberation by United States troops; learning his family had all been killed; and emigration to the United States in 1949.
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Cite as:William K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1334). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:K., William, 1912-
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Jewish ghettos.
Jews--China--Shanghai.
Jewish refugees.
Jews--Migrations.
Germany.
Cologne (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
Shanghai (China)
Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
Zionist organizations.
Hongkew ghetto (Shanghai, China)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Fishbein, Irvin, interviewer.
McPherson, Barbara, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1055910