Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Manfred S., who was born in Josbach, Germany in 1924. He describes his family's long history there; his father's death in 1929; cordial relations with non-Jews until the rise of Nazism; his mother arranging his emigration to the United States in 1938 and his brother's to Palestine six months later; traveling by himself from Hamburg to New York; living with his aunt in Chicago; corresponding with his mother until 1941; being drafted into the United States Army in March 1943; participating in the liberation of Holland and the Battle of the Bulge; translating documents for signing the armistice; liberating Wöbbelin; indescribable conditions; organizing local Germans to bury hundreds of dead; trying to save those still living; serving as a military governor; learning his mother and sister had been deported; returning to the United States in October 1945; his brother's death in Palestine; and a recent trip to Stutthof where he learned the details of his mother's and sister's deaths.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1994
- Interview Date
- April 24, 1994.
- Locale
- Germany
Josbach (Germany) - Cite As
- Manfred S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2473). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 16 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Liberator.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Germany. Josbach (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) S., Manfred,--1924- Wöbbelin (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
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/4287597
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4287597
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