Herbert K. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Herbert K., who was born in Borken, Germany in 1920, the youngest of six children. He recalls his family's strong German identity and their Jewish orthodoxy; expulsion from gymnasium in 1933; attending school in Winterswijk, Netherlands from 1937 on; learning of his parents' arrest on Kristallnacht; emigration of two brothers to the United States; bringing two brothers and his sister to the Netherlands with assistance from his uncle in Amsterdam; their incarceration in Westerbork as illegal immigrants; working on a farm from 1939 through the spring of 1943; hiding with many other Jews with assistance from a Dutch farmer and the underground; and liberation by Canadian troops. Mr. K. describes returning to Winterswijk; learning his parents and two brothers had perished; working with the Red Cross assisting concentration camp survivors; emigrating to the United States in 1946; marriage; and the births of four children. He discusses trips to Holland and Germany and his affection for Holland and its people.
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
- K., Herbert, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Netherlands.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
Places
- Germany.
- Winterswijk (Netherlands)
- Borken (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat