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Charles F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2901) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Gabriele Schiff,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2901

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    Videotape testimony of Charles F., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1923. He remembers SA street marches; his parents' divorce; attending boarding school in Austria; moving to Florence with his mother; moving to Berlin because his father wished him to have a German education; the 1936 Olympics; attending boarding school in Coburg; destruction of his school on Kristallnacht; his father's arrest; moving to Paris with his mother; attending boarding school; German invasion; joining his mother in La Bourboule; their move to Nice; attending hotel management school; traveling illegally to Port-Bou, Spain via Perpignan and Cerbère when Italy invaded; their move to Lisbon; emigration to the United States in 1941; being drafted into the United States military in 1943; interrogating German prisoners of war; entering Nordhausen upon its liberation; assisting in preparations for the Nuremberg Trials; and his father's emigration to the United States (he survived hiding in Berlin) and subsequent return to Germany. Mr. F. shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    F., Charles, 1923-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
    Interview Date
    March 15, 1994.
    Locale
    Germany
    Nuremberg (Germany)
    Florence (Italy)
    Berlin (Germany)
    Coburg (Germany)
    Paris (France)
    La Bourboule (France)
    Perpignan (France)
    Cerbère (France)
    Port-Bou (Spain)
    Nice (France)
    Lisbon (Portugal)
    Cite As
    Charles F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2901). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.

    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., 11 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Child survivors.
    Crystal Night, 1938.
    Liberator.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289210
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:25:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4289210

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