Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Steinbach, Germany in 1924. This testimony includes all of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-146). Additional topics discussed include his father's release from Dachau; his sister's emigration to the United States under Quaker auspices in 1941; his parents' deportation to France; being beaten by the Gestapo (he could not speak of this for years); and being forced to submit to homosexual advances by veteran prisoners in a concentration camp. He recounts returning to Steinbach after liberation; meeting his wife in a displaced persons camp near Frankfurt; emigrating to the United States; becoming reacquainted with his sister; and coping with multiple sclerosis.
- Published
- Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
- Interview Date
- February 22, 1994.
- Locale
- Germany
Steinbach bei Michelstadt im Odenwald (Germany)
Mannheim (Germany) - Cite As
- Walter S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2334). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Additional written materials and photographs are available in the repository.
Associated material: Walter S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-146), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 44 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Crystal Night, 1938.
Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Hospitals in concentration camps. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Sexual harassment. Germany. Steinbach bei Michelstadt im Odenwald (Germany) Mannheim (Germany) Kristallnacht, 1938. Oral histories (document genres) Escapes. Refugee camps. S., Walter,--1924-1995. Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. Altenburg (Concentration camp : Thuringia, Germany) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1096677
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1096677
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