Hal L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1899) interviewed by Alice Epstein and Rochelle Karp,

Videotape testimony of Hal L., who was born in Wanne-Eickel, Germany in 1923. He recalls his traditional and strict upbringing; his father's medical practice; non-Jewish friends; anti-Semitic incidents in school; expulsion of Jewish students in 1936; attending Jewish high school in Cologne, where he lived with an aunt; and emigrating alone to the United States in 1937. Mr. L. recounts living with a Jewish family in Washington, D.C.; corresponding with his family; their arrival in 1939; assistance from the Baron de Hirsch Fund to purchase a chicken farm in Woodbine, New Jersey; his father's move to New York, then Jerusalem; visiting his father frequently in Israel; and the fate of other family members. He reflects upon the loss of his childhood; discussing prejudice with his grandsons; and a reunion in Aachen he and his wife attended.