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Eric M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2893) interviewed by Ann Solov Walker,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2893

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Eric M., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1907, one of five brothers. He recalls attending public school; his father's death; receiving a business degree in 1930, then a law degree in 1933; the Anschluss; efforts to obtain emigration documents for him and his mother (his brothers had emigrated earlier); incarceration in a school on May 28, 1938; transfer to Dachau; assistance from a non-Jewish prisoner when he fainted during appell (roll-call); arduous slave labor; assistance from his father's former business competitor; transfer to Buchenwald; obtaining a visa from a cousin's uncle in the United States; release from Buchenwald in January 1939; traveling to Vienna; traveling to London; marriage to a women he knew from Vienna; and arrival in the United States in November. Mr. M. discusses emotional difficulties in a concentration camp, which were harder for him than the physical abuse.
Author/Creator: M., Eric, 1907-
Published: Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1995
Interview Date: May 9, 1995.
Locale: Austria
Vienna (Austria)
London (England)
Cite As: Eric M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2893). 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 (57 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Anschluss.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Austria. Vienna (Austria) London (England) Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Oral histories (document genres) M., Eric,--1907- Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Dachau (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/4297118
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:40:00
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