Fred H. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Fred H., who was born in Stan?kov in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Czech Republic) in 1906. He recounts his family's move to Plzen? in 1909; attending public school; his father's service in the first World War; his Austrian patriotism; the transition to Czechoslovakia; studying in Paris and Prague; accompanying a cousin to the United States in August 1938; deciding not to return after the Munich agreement; illegally living in Toronto and Montre?al; receiving a U.S. visa; traveling to London; meeting his mother and brother in Paris in August 1939; their emigration to the United States; traveling to Brussels after war broke out; emigration to the United States from England; marriage in 1949; and teaching history. Mr. H. discusses Jewish and family history; the German government's approval of his doctoral dissertation in 1977; and teaching courses on the Holocaust. He shows photographs and documents.

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