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Author/Creator:H., Edward, 1928-
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Title:Edward H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2513) [videorecording] / interviewed by David Krakow and Margot Brandes, December 17, 1993.
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Published/Created:Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1993.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 13 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.2513)
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:Related publication: Jugend auf der Flucht, 1933-1948 : 15 Jahre im Spiegel des Schweizer Hilfswerks für Emigrantenkinder / Mit einem Vorw. von Albert Schweitzer ; Nettie Sutro. -- Zürich : Europa-Verlag, c1952.
Associated material: Halbright, Edward. Interview 24321. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Edward H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. He recalls expulsion from school in 1938 due to anti-Jewish laws; his father's nine-day incarceration in Sachsenhausen after Kristallnacht; leaving by ship for Cuba in April 1939; returning upon hearing of the St. Louis; departure for Shanghai on August 20; the ship returning to Bremerhaven due to the war; his father and brother smuggling themselves to Antwerp; remaining in Cologne with his mother; their illegal journey to Antwerp; his father's and brother's incarceration as enemy aliens; his mother's death; his brother's release; assistance from a German family friend in escaping to Paris with his brother; smuggling themselves to the unoccupied zone; assistance from the French boy scouts; living in Marseille; their father's transfer to Les Milles; living in an OSE children's home; visiting his brother; attempting to visit their father prior to his deportation (they never saw him again); his brother being smuggled to Switzerland in September 1942 with help from the scouts; being smuggled to Switzerland by OSE with a group of children in April 1943; living in a children's home; attending a Benedictine school, then engineering school in Geneva; emigration to the United States in 1948; and his brother joining him in 1949.
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Cite as:Edward H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2513). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:H., Edward, 1928-
Éclaireurs israélites de France.
World Union OSE.
Holocaust survivors.
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Children.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
Jews--Migrations.
Jewish refugees.
Orphanages--France.
Orphanages--Switzerland.
Brothers.
Germany.
Berlin (Germany)
Bremerhaven (Germany)
Geneva (Switzerland)
Switzerland.
Cologne (Germany)
Antwerp (Belgium)
Paris (France)
Marseille (France)
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Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews.
Noncitizens--Evacuation and relocation.
Antisemitism--Prewar.
Les Milles (France : Concentration camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Krakow, David, interviewer.
Brandes, Margot, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296852