Werner H. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Werner H., who was born in Ku?strin, Germany in 1910. He details his brother-in-law's death in September 1938; difficulties in arranging his burial because they were Jewish; arrest with his family during Kristallnacht; forced labor and harsh conditions in Sachsenhausen; his release due to their promise to leave for Shanghai; selling all their possessions; and emigrating from Berlin to Shanghai. Mr. H. recalls the international settlement; going into business with a friend; joining a Jewish volunteer company to patrol the international settlement; Japanese occupation; destroying the volunteers' membership lists; ghettoization; liberation by United States troops; working as a civilian driver in the United States Army for two years; marriage; the birth of his son; and emigration to the United States in 1947. Mr. H. credits his and his family's survival to their emigration to Shanghai.
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
- H., Werner, -- 1910-
Corporate Bodies
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Jews -- China -- Shanghai.
- Forced labor.
- Family.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
Places
- Hongkew ghetto (Shanghai, China)
- Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
- KuĚstrin (Germany)
- Germany.
- Shanghai (China)
- Berlin (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat