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Herbert K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1680) interviewed by Ira Glick and Elaine Schepp,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1680

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Herbert K., who was born in Borken, Germany in 1920, the youngest of six children. He recalls his family's strong German identity and their Jewish orthodoxy; expulsion from gymnasium in 1933; attending school in Winterswijk, Netherlands from 1937 on; learning of his parents' arrest on Kristallnacht; emigration of two brothers to the United States; bringing two brothers and his sister to the Netherlands with assistance from his uncle in Amsterdam; their incarceration in Westerbork as illegal immigrants; working on a farm from 1939 through the spring of 1943; hiding with many other Jews with assistance from a Dutch farmer and the underground; and liberation by Canadian troops. Mr. K. describes returning to Winterswijk; learning his parents and two brothers had perished; working with the Red Cross assisting concentration camp survivors; emigrating to the United States in 1946; marriage; and the births of four children. He discusses trips to Holland and Germany and his affection for Holland and its people.
Author/Creator: K., Herbert, 1920-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1988
Interview Date: June 26, 1988.
Locale: Netherlands
Germany
Borken (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Winterswijk (Netherlands)
Cite As: Herbert K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1680). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Glick, Ira, interviewer.
Schepp, Elaine, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (45 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Child survivors.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands. Kristallnacht, 1938. Germany. Borken (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) Winterswijk (Netherlands) Oral histories (document genres) K., Herbert,--1920- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1110345
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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