- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Henry B., who was born in Simmern, Germany in 1922. He recalls antisemitic harassment; expulsion from school; his bar mitzvah; attending school in Frankfurt in 1937; returning home during Kristallnacht; their house being vandalized; a Protestant minister helping them; joining an aunt in Mainz; attending school in Cologne; his parents joining him in spring 1940; his parents receiving a deportation notice; arranging to be deported with them; deportation to the Rīga ghetto in December 1941; transfer to the ghetto, then to Salaspils (he never saw his parents again); a severe beating; transfer back to the ghetto; contact with a girl from home (his future wife); her mother caring for him when he was ill; working as an auto mechanic; transfer to Kaiserwald in 1943; arranging a job for his future wife; ship transfer to Stutthof in September 1944; prisoners praying on Yom Kippur; transfer to Magdeburg; escaping with friends in January 1945; capture; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Simmern; locals returning his home and furniture; reunion with his future wife; marriage in 1945; his daughter's birth; emigration to the United States in 1951; and his son's birth. Mr. B. notes continuing genocidal killings demonstrate the world has not learned from the Holocaust. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- B., Henry, 1922-
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1995
- Interview Date
- April 9, 1995.
- Locale
- Latvia
Rīga
Germany
Simmern (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
Cologne (Germany)
- Cite As
- Henry B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1942). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Siegel, Allen M., interviewer.
