- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ernest H., who was born in 1925 in Neumarkt, Germany. He recalls moving to Fürth in 1938 so he and his siblings could attend a Jewish school (they were expelled in Neumarkt); his brother's emigration to the United States in 1941; deportation with his parents and sister to Jungfernhof, Latvia in December 1941; forced labor as a car mechanic, which he believes saved him from extermination; transfer to the Rīga ghetto in July 1942 (he notes the sadism of the Gestapo commander), then to Kaiserwald and Stutthof in 1943; and liberation from Rybno (Rieben) by Soviet troops in March 1945. He relates the kindness of the Russians; recuperating in the town of Rieben; traveling to Berlin, then Fürth; the antisemitic environment; reunion with his brother who was serving in the United States Air Force; and emigration to the United States in 1946. He notes that he and other survivors were "robbed" of their youth, and that his experiences demonstrate human behavior that is unbelievable.
- Author/Creator
- H., Ernest, 1925-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1992
- Interview Date
- July 15, 1992.
- Locale
- Latvia
Rīga
Germany
Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz (Germany)
Fürth (Bavaria, Germany)
Rybno (Poland)
- Cite As
- Ernest H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2453). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Arkin, Nat, interviewer.
- Notes
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Additional written materials are available in the repository.
