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Alfred F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3480) interviewed by Miriam Gol and Nathan Beyrak,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3480

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Alfred F., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wrocław, Poland) in 1920, the older of two siblings. He recounts his father's pro-German sentiments based on his military service in World War I; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school in 1934; attending a Jewish school; moving with his family to Berlin in 1935; participating in Hechalutz; attending their summer camp; hearing Martin Buber speak; non-Jewish neighbors hiding his family during Kristallnacht; his sister's emigration to England, then his to Wieringen, Netherlands with a hachsharah in March 1939; German invasion in May 1940; Germans transferring the hachsharah to Amsterdam; delivering mail to Westerbork for the Joodse Raad; working with the Jewish underground producing false papers, stealing passports from government offices, and supplying food to Jews in hiding; hiding during round-ups; escaping to Brussels with three others; capture while entering France; their release in Lille based on their false papers; traveling to Paris; working as a non-Jew for Organization Todt; delivering weapons to partisans in Toulouse and Nice; being sent to Cuneo, Italy to aid French Jews who had escaped to nearby mountains; trips to Florence, Rome, and Siena for the underground; arrest in Paris in April 1944 as a resistant, not a Jew; incarceration in Fresnes; interrogations, beatings, and torture; transfer to Drancy, Buchenwald, then Witten-Annen; slave labor in a factory, then for a German camp official; contacts with prisoners of war from many countries; escaping from a death march; liberation by United States troops in Lippstadt; repatriation to Deventer; joining Hechalutz in Amsterdam; assignments in Toulouse, Paris, Biarritz, and Sète to arrange illegal emigration to Palestine; illegal emigration by ship; and brief incarceration by the British. Mr. F. discusses the prisoner hierarchy and relationships among national groups in the camps.
    Author/Creator
    F., Alfred, 1920?-
    Published
    Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
    Interview Date
    September 17 and September 23, 1992.
    Locale
    Netherlands
    France
    Germany
    Wrocław (Poland)
    Berlin (Germany)
    Wieringen (Netherlands)
    Amsterdam (Netherlands)
    Brussels (Belgium)
    Lille (France)
    Paris (France)
    Nice (France)
    Toulouse (France)
    Cuneo (Italy)
    Florence (Italy)
    Rome (Italy)
    Siena (Italy)
    Lippstadt (Germany)
    Deventer (Netherlands)
    Biarritz (France)
    Sète (France)
    Palestine
    Cite As
    Alfred F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3480). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Beyrak, Nathan, interviewer.
    Gol, Miriam, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Hebrew.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    2 videorecordings (7 hr., 19 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Crystal Night, 1938.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    False papers.
    Hiding.
    Partisans.
    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. Kristallnacht, 1938. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Jewish councils. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Netherlands. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Death marches. Escapes. Germany. Wrocław (Poland) Berlin (Germany) Wieringen (Netherlands) Amsterdam (Netherlands) Brussels (Belgium) Lille (France) Paris (France) Nice (France) Toulouse (France) Cuneo (Italy) Florence (Italy) Rome (Italy) Siena (Italy) Lippstadt (Germany) Deventer (Netherlands) Biarritz (France) Sète (France) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) F., Alfred,--1920?- Buber, Martin,--1878-1965. Hechalutz (Organization) Westerbork (Concentration camp) Organisation Todt (Germany) Centre pénitentiaire de Fresnes. Drancy (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4297621
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:42:00
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