- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Edward H., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. He recalls expulsion from school in 1938 due to anti-Jewish laws; his father's nine-day incarceration in Sachsenhausen after Kristallnacht; leaving by ship for Cuba in April 1939; returning upon hearing of the St. Louis; departure for Shanghai on August 20; the ship returning to Bremerhaven due to the war; his father and brother smuggling themselves to Antwerp; remaining in Cologne with his mother; their illegal journey to Antwerp; his father's and brother's incarceration as enemy aliens; his mother's death; his brother's release; assistance from a German family friend in escaping to Paris with his brother; smuggling themselves to the unoccupied zone; assistance from the French boy scouts; living in Marseille; their father's transfer to Les Milles; living in an OSE children's home; visiting his brother; attempting to visit their father prior to his deportation (they never saw him again); his brother being smuggled to Switzerland in September 1942 with help from the scouts; being smuggled to Switzerland by OSE with a group of children in April 1943; living in a children's home; attending a Benedictine school, then engineering school in Geneva; emigration to the United States in 1948; and his brother joining him in 1949.
- Author/Creator
- H., Edward, 1928-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1993
- Interview Date
- December 17, 1993.
- Locale
- France
Switzerland
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Bremerhaven (Germany)
Geneva (Switzerland)
Cologne (Germany)
Antwerp (Belgium)
Paris (France)
Marseille (France)
- Cite As
- Edward H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2513). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Krakow, David, interviewer.
Brandes, Margot, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Jugend auf der Flucht, 1933-1948 : 15 Jahre im Spiegel des Schweizer Hilfswerks für Emigrantenkinder / Mit einem Vorw. von Albert Schweitzer ; Nettie Sutro. -- Zürich : Europa-Verlag, c1952.
