Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Walter L., who was born in Ortelsburg, Germany (presently Szczynto, Poland) in 1922, the elder of two children. He recounts attending school; moving to Königsberg (presently Kaliningrad, Russia); antisemitic harassment; participating in Makabi ha-tsaʻir; his bar mitzvah in 1935; having to leave school; attending a Zionist agricultural school in Ahrensdorf; hospitalization in Berlin; apprenticing with a dentist; emigrating with his family to the United States via Hamburg in June 1938, with assistance from relatives there; marriage; and the births of four daughters. Mr. L. notes most of his relatives were killed in the Holocaust. He shows photographs.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1987
- Interview Date
- March 22, 1987.
- Locale
- Germany
Szczytno (Olsztyn, Poland)
Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
Ahrensdorf (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
Hamburg (Germany) - Cite As
- Walter L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-915). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. master; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 25 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Bar mitzvah. Jewish refugees. Jews--Migration. Germany. Szczytno (Olsztyn, Poland) Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) Ahrensdorf (Germany) Berlin (Germany) Hamburg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) L., Walter,--1922- Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association)
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/4294617
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294617
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