- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Justin R., who was born in 1929 in Horstein, Germany, the older of two brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; their affluence; attending a Jewish school; a neighbor shooting their dog when the Nazis came to power; vandalism against Jewish property and beatings of Jews; confiscation of his father's store; his father's beating by a man he knew, resulting in his decision to emigrate; he and his brother being sent to a Jewish boarding school; threats by SS to shoot all the children in the school on Kristallnacht; his parents retrieving him and his brother; living in Aschaffenburg; being warned his father would be arrested in January 1939; joining an uncle in Amsterdam; traveling to England, Paris, back to Amsterdam, then to Liverpool; and emigration to the United States by boat via Le Havre. Mr. R. notes his parents never fully adjusted to the United States; losing his belief in God when learning of the killings and camps after the war; continuing hostility toward Germany; encountering antisemitism on a business trip to Hamburg in 1963; and refusing to ever return.
- Author/Creator
- R., Justin, 1929-
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1988
- Interview Date
- May 25, 1988.
- Locale
- Germany
Hörstein (Germany)
Aschaffenburg (Germany)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Paris (France)
Le Havre (France)
Liverpool (England)
Hamburg (Germany)
- Cite As
- Justin R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1240). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
Weissberg, Marcia, interviewer.
