- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rabbi Isaiah W., who was born in Bad Kissingen, Germany in 1915, to a rabbinical family with a long German history. He recalls attending gymnasium in Würzburg; rabbinical studies in Telšiai and Berlin; his father's death in 1935; appointment to the rabbinate in Bad Kissingen, then a joint appointment in Ansbach; a summer visit to Palestine in 1938; being forced to watch the synagogue burn during Kristallnacht; imprisonment in Würzburg; transfer to Dachau; humiliating exercises, long appells, and inadequate food; release after a few weeks provided he leave Germany; obtaining a visa from an American relative; traveling to the Netherlands in February 1939, then to the United States in June; marriage to a German refugee; and his teaching career. Rabbi W. discusses wonderful memories of his rabbinical career between 1935 and 1938; postwar trips to Germany; efforts to restore the synagogue and cemetery in Bad Kissingen; his brother's and mother's deportations and deaths; and his son's lack of interest in German culture.
- Author/Creator
- W., Isaiah, 1915-
- Published
- Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1991
- Interview Date
- October 31, 1991.
- Locale
- Netherlands
Germany
Bad Kissingen (Germany)
Würzburg (Germany)
Telšiai (Lithuania)
Berlin (Germany)
Ansbach (Mittelfranken, Germany)
Palestine
- Cite As
- Isaiah W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2289). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
