- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Frank K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1915. He recalls his comfortable youth; antisemitic incidents; the Anschluss; the public humiliation of cleaning streets with his father; fleeing to Berlin after receiving an anonymous warning of his arrest; wandering through Germany unable to stay in one place without identification; returning to Vienna after learning his passport was available; marriage; leaving for Larnaca; his wife joining him four months later; teaching in Nicosia; internment by the British as an enemy alien in 1939; evacuation via Haifa to Tel Aviv; leaving five months later for Dar es Salaam via Cairo, then to Shinyanga after the outbreak of war; teaching in Tabora; emigration with his wife to the United States in 1946; and his subsequent life and career. Mr. K. discusses his experiences as a boy scout in Vienna; establishing a boy scout group in Tabora; corresponding with his parents after they were deported to Terezín; and learning about their deportation to Auschwitz from his returned letter, dated September 14, 1945. He shows several documents and letters.
- Author/Creator
- K., Frank, 1915-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- June 21, 1994.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Berlin (Germany)
Cyprus
Larnaca (Cyprus)
Nicosia (Cyprus)
Tel Aviv (Israel)
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)
Shinyanga District (Tanzania)
Tabora District (Tanzania)
- Cite As
- Frank K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2487). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Edith K. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-2488), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
