- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1921 and raised in Vienna. He recalls his affluent childhood; his family's assimilation, emphasis on Viennese culture, and education; the Anschluss; expulsion from school; his older sisters' emigration; traveling to Prague to continue school; arrest; returning home; being sent to Paris in September 1938; internment in Melsay-du-Maine as an enemy alien after the outbreak of war in September 1939; release and emigration to the United States in January; assistance from HIAS in New York; being drafted in 1942; special training due to his language skills; landing on Normandy Beach on D-Day plus three; volunteering at the Nuremberg trials as his form of revenge; transfer to the Dachau trials; visiting Dachau; visiting his cousin Doris W. after learning from his parents in Argentina that she had survived; bringing Doris to the U.S.; military discharge in New York in 1946; marriage in 1947 to a childhood acquaintance; bringing his parents to the U.S. in 1949; and their deaths in 1950. Mr. W. discusses his fervent patriotism; continued animosity toward Germany despite frequent business trips there; and gratitude for his own luck in escaping Europe.
- Author/Creator
- W., Harry, 1921-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1998
- Interview Date
- August 26, 1998.
- Locale
- Germany
Czechoslovakia
Prague (Czech Republic)
Vienna (Austria)
Paris (France)
Nuremberg (Germany)
Meslay-du-Maine (France)
Austria
- Cite As
- Harry W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3770). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Millen, Susan, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Doris W. Holocaust testimony [cousin] (HVT-1410), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University.
