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Louis R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1611) interviewed by Mark Jacobs and Diane M. Plotkin,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1611

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Louis R., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1921, one of two brothers. He recounts his parents' tailor shop; his mother's orthodoxy; attending public and Hebrew school; working from age fourteen; German invasion in 1940; his brother's deportation because he would not leave his wife (they did not survive); feigning illness to avoid deportation; hiding on a farm, then with his father's friend; obtaining false papers with assistance from the underground; working in a bakery; learning his parents were in hiding; obtaining documents to work for the Germans on the Atlantic wall; joining his parents in hiding with a non-Jewish couple (there were a total of eighteen); Germans searching the house; liberation in May 1945; and emigration to the United States in 1957. Mr. R. discusses confronting Abraham Asscher and David Cohen, heads of the Judenrat, about the deportations; the murders of many relatives and children in the Holocaust; many non-Jews who helped; and pervasive painful memories. He shows documents and photographs.
Author/Creator: R., Louis, 1921-
Published: Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1991
Interview Date: March 12, 1991.
Locale: Netherlands
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Cite As: Louis R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1611). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Plotkin, Diane M., interviewer.

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., 47 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands. Fathers and sons. Mothers and sons. Jewish councils. Netherlands. Amsterdam (Netherlands) Oral histories (document genres) R., Louis,--1921- Asscher, Abraham,--1880-1955. Cohen, David,--1882-1967.

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/4295794
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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