- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Kurt R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1912. He recalls graduating from medical school in 1937; his brother's marriage and emigration to Palestine in 1938; his marriage; futile efforts to emigrate to Palestine; fleeing to Trieste in 1939, leaving his parents and wife in Vienna (his parents were deported to Minsk and killed); arrest and transfer to a camp in Eboli; working as a doctor's assistant; release with assistance from the camp doctor; living in Todi, then in Umbertide; German invasion; arrest; escaping to Todi from a train station in Perugia; local Italians arranging to hide him in Perugia; liberation by British troops; reunion in 1947 with his wife (she survived several concentration camps); his son's birth in 1948; practicing medicine in Todi; living in a displaced persons camp in Bagnoli; and emigrating to the United States with his family in March 1950. Dr. R. shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- R., Kurt, 1912-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- Novemeber 10, 1993.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Trieste (Italy)
Eboli (Italy)
Todi (Italy)
Umbertide (Italy)
Perugia (Italy)
Bagnoli (Naples, Italy)
- Cite As
- Kurt R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2944). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.
