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Stephen L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1968) interviewed by Ann Solov Walker,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1968

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Stephen L., who was born in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish father and Protestant mother. He recalls his mother's death in 1931; living in a Jewish orphanage; his father's two month incarceration in Oranienburg; his bar mitzvah; his father's remarriage to a Jewish woman in 1938; violent harassment by Hitler youth; Kristallnacht; his father losing his business; his parents sending him to France; attending public school; German invasion in 1940; Quakers transporting his group to unoccupied territory; assistance from OSE and ORT; learning from the Red Cross that his parents had reached the United States; his parents obtaining a visa for him; living with a family in Marseille; arrival in the United States in 1942; joining the U.S. military in March 1943; training as an interpreter for army intelligence; being shipped to England; assignment to the 6th division; moving through France to Germany; liberating Buchenwald; leaving shortly thereafter; and returning to the U.S. in late 1945. Mr. L. discusses his continuing nightmares and hostility toward his biological mother's family who did nothing to help him. He shows documents.
Author/Creator: L., Stephen, 1925-
Published: Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1995
Interview Date: October 23, 1995.
Locale: Germany
Marseille (France)
Berlin (Germany)
France
Cite As: Stephen L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1968). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Walker, Ann Solov, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (56 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar effects.
Liberator.
Child survivor.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Crystal Night, 1938.
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. Children of interfaith marriage. Orphanages--Germany. Bar mitzvah. Kristallnacht, 1938. Quakers. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. Nightmares. Marseille (France) Germany. Berlin (Germany) France. Oral histories (document genres) L., Stephen,--1925- World ORT Union. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. United States.--Army.--Infantry Division, 6th. Buchenwald (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/4296379
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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