Martin R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-992) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Gabriele Schiff,
Videotape testimony of Martin R., who was born in Posen, Germany (presently Poznań, Poland) in 1908. He describes his father's death as a Prussian officer in World War I; his mother's strong German identification; moving to Berlin with his family in 1918; attending school in Bütow; antisemitic incidents; joining a family lumber business in Danzig in 1936; moving to Warsaw in 1938; German invasion; traveling to many places to avoid German capture; arriving in Amsterdam in November 1939; German invasion; escaping by boat; incarceration as an enemy alien in many places, including St. John's, Newfoundland and Jamaica; and emigration to Cuba, then to the United States.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1988
- Interview Date
- May 15, 1988.
- Locale
- Canada
Germany
Poznań (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
Bütow (Germany)
Gdańsk (Poland)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Warsaw (Poland)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
St. John's (N.L.)
Jamaica
Havana (Cuba) - Language
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English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Martin R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-992). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4282792
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