Heinz P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1433) interviewed by Ann Solov Walker and Janet Miller,

Videotape testimony of Heinz P., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1911. He recalls his apprenticeship and employment in a bank; the anti-Jewish boycott in 1933; his brother's emigration to South America; co-workers suddenly shunning him; dismissal from his job in February 1937; working for his father's business associate in Kitzingen; arrest on Kristallnacht; imprisonment in Dachau for three months; his release; and departure for Shanghai a few days later. Mr. P. recounts living outside the Jewish area; starting a photography business with a friend; corresponding with his father who wrote of his mother's death; learning of the war from German newspapers; ghettoization after the attack on Pearl Harbor; marriage in 1942; his son's birth in 1945; and emigration to the United States in 1947. He notes losing contact with his father and learning after the war that he had been deported to Auschwitz.