- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Werner H., who was born in Küstrin, 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.
- Author/Creator
- H., Werner, 1910-
- Published
- Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
- Interview Date
- May 10, 1994.
- Locale
- China
Shanghai
Germany
Küstrin (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
Shanghai (China)
Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China)
- Cite As
- Werner H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2408). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Devinki, Barbara, interviewer.
Donovan, Fred, interviewer.
- Notes
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