- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Arnold L., who was born in Polzin, Germany (presently Połczyn-Zdrój, Poland) in 1919. He recalls attending public school; expulsion in 1935 due to antisemitism; attending a Zionist agricultural school near Berlin with his brother; visiting his parents in Berlin, where they had been forced to move after confiscation of their assets; moving to a kibbutz in Hessen in 1937, then to another in Grüsen; emigration in 1938 to a town outside Amsterdam in order to leave for Palestine; illegally traveling by ship to Palestine with 1500 other people in 1939 (his brother had emigrated in 1938); living on kibbutzim; the outbreak of war; joining the British Army; serving with the Jewish brigade in Egypt and Italy; accompanying German prisoners from Italy to Innsbruck; assisting survivors in Eindhoven, Holland to emigrate illegally to Palestine; meeting his wife in Brussels; returning to Palestine in 1946; working as a baker during the Israel-Arab War; and emigrating to the United States in 1957. Mr. L. discusses the deportation and deaths of his parents; ignorance of the Holocaust until after the war; and hardships in Israel during the Israel-Arab War.
- Author/Creator
- L., Arnold, 1919-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- November 10,1991.
- Locale
- Połczyn Zdrój (Poland)
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Hesse (Germany)
Grüsen (Germany)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Palestine
Eindhoven (Netherlands)
Egypt
Innsbruck (Austria)
Brussels (Belgium)
Israel
- Cite As
- Arnold L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1994). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kantor, Eva, interviewer.
Rothstein, Sergio, interviewer.
