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Rudy F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2465) interviewed by Leon Satenstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2465

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Rudy F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. He recalls many non-Jewish friends; antisemitism following the Anschluss; implementation of the Nuremberg laws; unsuccessful efforts to emigrate; joining a kibbutz to prepare for emigration to Palestine; Kristallnacht; arrest immediately after the war began; transfer to Buchenwald; slave labor; hospitalization; being saved by non-Jewish prisoners; apprenticeship as a bricklayer, which provided better rations; receiving mail from his family until August 1942; transfer to Auschwitz in October; assignment to Buna/Monowitz; working as a bricklayer; contact with British POWs; sabotaging work when he could; the death march in January 1945; train transport back to Buchenwald; friends he had previously known providing a privileged work assignment; liberation by United States troops in April; living in Salzburg, then Vienna; learning his parents and sister had been deported to Minsk (no one returned); receiving papers from relatives in the United States; living in Stuttgart displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States in 1947; and marriage to a friend he had known in Vienna. Mr. F. discusses relations between prisoner groups in the camps; the prisoner hierarchy; and recurring nightmares.
Author/Creator: F., Rudy, 1921-
Published: Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1991
Interview Date: July 18, 1991.
Locale: Germany
Poland
Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Salzburg (Austria)
Cite As: Rudy F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2465). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Satenstein, Leon, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 52 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Nuremberg laws.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Citizenship--Germany. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. Kristallnacht, 1938. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Prisoners of war--Poland. Sabotage. Death marches. Nightmares. Refugee camps. Austria. Vienna (Austria) Salzburg (Austria) Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Oral histories (document genres) F., Rudy,--1921- Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp)

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/4287548
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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