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Martin R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-992) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Gabriele Schiff,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-992

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.

Author/Creator
R., Martin, 1908-
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
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.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4282792
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