Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Martin E., who was born in Weinheim, Germany in 1929. He recalls anti-Jewish harassment; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school in Karlsruhe; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his return from Dachau six weeks later; deportation with his parents and sister to Gurs in October 1940; obtaining extra food for his family because children could leave the camp; a French family offering to keep him; refusing to leave his family; removal of the children to an orphanage in Aspet a few months later (he never saw his parents or sister again); two years later being brought to Quakers in Toulouse; being smuggled to Switzerland since he had relatives there; living with his relatives in Zurich; becoming a Zionist; emigration to Israel in 1949; military service; emigration to the United States in 1955; marriage; the births of two daughters; divorce after eleven years; and being disabled by Parkinson's disease. He shows photographs.
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1995
- Interview Date
- April 28, 1995.
- Locale
- France
Germany
Weinheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany)
Karlsruhe (Germany)
Toulouse (France)
Aspet (France)
Zurich (Switzerland)
Israel - Cite As
- Martin E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2863). 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., 34 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Child survivors. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Fathers and sons. Mothers and sons. Brothers and sisters. Kristallnacht, 1938. Orphanages--France. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Quakers. Zionists. Germany. Weinheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany) Karlsruhe (Germany) Toulouse (France) Aspet (France) Zurich (Switzerland) Israel. Oral histories (document genres) E., Martin,--1929- Gurs (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/4297101
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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