- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Kenneth F., who was born in Richtenberg, Germany in 1921. He recounts attending the local public school and religious school in Stralsund; non-Jewish friends not longer associating with him after they joined the Hitler Youth; the impact of the Nuremberg laws, including not being allowed to employ non-Jews; living with his aunt in Berlin in fall 1935 to attend a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; matriculation in 1938; masonry training in preparation for emigration; receiving permission to emigrate to Manchester, England as a trainee in 1939; working as a brick-layer trainee from March to September; internment as an enemy alien in 1940; corresponding with his family through relatives in neutral countries; enlisting in the British military in November; postings in Tunisia, Italy, France, and Germany; encountering a railroad car stacked with corpses; returning to Berlin with the British occupation; military discharge in 1946; returning to Manchester; joining his future wife, originally from Berlin, in the United States in 1947; marriage; and the births of two children. Mr. F. discusses the deportations and murders of his parents and many other relatives.
- Author/Creator
- F., Kenneth, 1921-
- Published
- Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1998
- Interview Date
- October 9, 1998.
- Locale
- Germany
Richtenberg (Germany)
Stralsund (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
Manchester (England)
Hamburg (Germany)
- Cite As
- Kenneth F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3968). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kaplan, Raymond, interviewer.
Brandes, Margot, interviewer.
