- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Henri O., who was born in Offenbach am Main, Germany in 1913. He recalls that his family moved to Germany in 1913 from Poland; his father's arrest during World War I because he was a Polish citizen; growing up in Aschaffenburg; teaching Judaism in Fulda and Tann after he graduated from a yeshiva in Frankfurt in 1933; his father's deportation to Poland from France, where he had fled after Kristallnacht; seeing his father for the last time when his father traveled through Frankfurt to Poland; his brother's and mother's brief arrest due to their Polish citizenship and their return from the border; his future wife's emigration to the United States; his brief arrest before his emigration to England; helping his mother and brother to flee from Germany to England; and his emigration to the United States with the assistance of his future wife's relatives. Rabbi Henri O. discusses his religious beliefs; antisemitism in prewar Germany; his postwar visits to Aschaffenburg and Tann; and he shows documents related to his experiences.
- Author/Creator
- O., Henri, 1913-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
- Interview Date
- March 2, 1995.
- Locale
- Germany
Offenbach am Main (Germany)
Aschaffenburg (Germany)
Tann (Fulda, Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Fulda (Germany)
- Cite As
- Rabbi Henri O. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2759). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,
