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.
- 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.
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
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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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