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Martin E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2863) interviewed by Evelyn Lowy and Raymond Kaplan,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2863

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Martin E., who was born in Weinheim, Germany in 1929. He recalls anti-Jewish harassment; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from public school; attending a Jewish school in Karlsruhe; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht; his return from Dachau six weeks later; deportation with his parents and sister to Gurs in October 1940; obtaining extra food for his family because children could leave the camp; a French family offering to keep him; refusing to leave his family; removal of the children to an orphanage in Aspet a few months later (he never saw his parents or sister again); two years later being brought to Quakers in Toulouse; being smuggled to Switzerland since he had relatives there; living with his relatives in Zurich; becoming a Zionist; emigration to Israel in 1949; military service; emigration to the United States in 1955; marriage; the births of two daughters; divorce after eleven years; and being disabled by Parkinson's disease. He shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    E., Martin, 1929-
    Published
    Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1995
    Interview Date
    April 28, 1995.
    Locale
    France
    Germany
    Weinheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany)
    Karlsruhe (Germany)
    Toulouse (France)
    Aspet (France)
    Zurich (Switzerland)
    Israel
    Cite As
    Martin E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2863). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Lowy, Evelyn, interviewer.
    Kaplan, Raymond, 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., 34 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Mutual aid.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Crystal Night, 1938.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Child survivors.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4297101
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:33:00
    This page:
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