- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Kurt G., who was born in a small town in Westphalia, Germany in 1917. One of fifteen children in a poor family, he recalls leaving home at age fourteen; an apprenticeship in Upper Silesia until 1937; his close friendship with the owner of a Berlin factory where he worked; Nazi attacks on students; fending off an SS assault; avoiding arrest during Kristallnacht by hiding in various locations in Berlin; escaping with three friends to Ter Apel, Netherlands; capture and return to Germany; five weeks in prison in Emden, then Berlin; emigration to England in March 1939; working with German friends to construct a refugee camp; relocation as enemy aliens to the Isle of Man, then Québec; fights with German prisoners of war; returning to England; marriage in Wales; transfer to London; volunteering as a "firewatcher" during bombing raids; and emigration to the United States after the war. He describes how most of his siblings were killed during the Holocaust.
- Author/Creator
- G., Kurt, 1917-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1992
- Interview Date
- July 1, 1992.
- Locale
- Germany
Westphalia (Germany)
Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic)
Berlin (Germany)
Ter Apel (Netherlands)
Emden (Lower Saxony, Germany)
Isle of Man
Wales
London (England)
Québec (Province)
- Cite As
- Kurt G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2448). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Krakow, David, interviewer.
Ticho, Charles J.
