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Ernest S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2749) interviewed by Charles E. Hoffhaus and Lori S. Klarfeld,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2749

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Ernest S., who was born in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad), Czechoslovakia in 1923. He recalls pervasive antisemitism; his sister's marriage and move to Plzeň in 1933; German annexation in 1938; immediately moving to his sister's (Plzeň was not annexed); German invasion; his parents sending him on an illegal Youth Aliyah transport to Palestine in 1940; his sister's emigration to England in 1941; enlisting in the Jewish Brigade of the British army; transferring to the Czech army in exile; transport to England; training there and in Scotland; moving through Germany to Czechoslovakia; visiting Theresienstadt; meeting former friends in Plzeň who told him not to bother trying to find survivors; learning his parents were deported and killed; unsuccessful efforts to reclaim family property in Karlsbad; leaving illegally from Prague in 1948; living in Regensburg and Murnau displaced persons camps for Czechs; marriage to a non-Jew who converted; working for the Joint in Munich; and emigration to the United States. Mr. S. discusses how difficult it must have been for his parents to send him away, which saved his life; and continued antipathy for the German language, Germans, and German products.
    Author/Creator
    S., Ernest, 1923-
    Published
    Kansas City, Kansas : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, 1994
    Interview Date
    August 18, 1994.
    Locale
    Czechoslovakia
    Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
    Plzeň (Czech Republic)
    Palestine
    England
    Scotland
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Munich (Germany)
    Cite As
    Ernest S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2749). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Hoffhaus, Charles E., interviewer.
    Klarfeld, Lori S., interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 17 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. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, British. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Czech. World War, 1939-1945--Governments in exile. Czechoslovakia--Politics and government--1938-1945. Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) Czechoslovakia. Plzeň (Czech Republic) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. England. Scotland. Prague (Czech Republic) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) S., Ernest,--1923- Jewish Agency for Israel.--Youth Aliyah Department.--Mador le-hadrakhah. Great Britain.--Army.--Jewish Brigade. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296982
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:45:00
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