Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Henri K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1916. He recalls growing up in Strasbourg, France; becoming a French citizen and a mechanical engineer in 1937; a visit with his sister in New York during officer training on the MS Lafayette; army enlistment; posting to Lebanon and Syria; defeat by Germany; and demobilization in Marseille in December 1940. Mr. K. remembers joining his family in Périgueux; becoming a surveyor in Lyon; anti-Jewish regulations; arrest while attempting to escape to Spain with a brother and his sister's children; a one month jail term; learning of round-ups (raffles) and deportations of Jews; posing as non-Jews and working as a surveyor with his brother for about two years in southern France; activities in the Maquis in Aubenas and elsewhere; and liberation. He tells of working in Paris; emigration to Canada, then the United States; marriage; his son's birth; his career; and his dismay when people like Barbie claim they did not know what was happening to Jews during the war.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- July 10, 1993.
- Locale
- France
Hungary
Budapest (Hungary)
Strasbourg (France)
Périgueux (France)
Aubenas (France)
Marseille (France)
Lebanon
Syria
Lyon (France) - Cite As
- Henri K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2147). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 4 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Resistance.
Postwar experiences.
Hiding. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--German. Families. Brothers. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, French. Hungary. Budapest (Hungary) France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Strasbourg (France) Périgueux (France) Aubenas (France) Marseille (France) Lebanon. Syria. Lyon (France) Oral histories (document genres) K., Henri,--1916-
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/1065454
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1065454
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