LEADER 05655cpd a2200745 a 4500001 4564299 005 20180604133212.0 008 980731s1998 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702237825 035 HVT-3970 035 |9FNA1475YL 035 4564299 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702162988 090 |bHVT-3970 100 1 H., Charles, |d1920- 245 10 Charles H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3970) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Raymond Kaplan, |fOctober 2, 1998. 260 Mahwah, N.J. : |bCenter for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, |c1998. 300 1 videorecording (59 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Charles H., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1920. He recounts his family's move to Vienna; the Anschluss; an uncle who had emigrated to the United States sending them emigration papers; moving to Prague so they could leave from a neutral country; German occupation; deportation to the Łódź ghetto in 1940; his father being "taken away"; transfer to Poznań, Auschwitz, then Myslowice (Fürstengrube) in January 1941; assignment to an I. G. Farben coal mine; a German supervisor allowing his group to rest and providing extra food; shootings of every tenth prisoner after escape attempts; transfer to Gleiwitz, then Dora/Nordhausen in 1945; taking the uniform of dead non-Jewish prisoner to improve his status; a prisoner underground contacting the British, resulting in bombings; a death march; an SS commander shooting himself in front of them in Güntersberge declaring his shame at being a German; liberation by United States troops; recuperation in a sanatorium; Soviet appointment as police chief in Güntersberge, then as culture minister in Harzgerode; receiving emigration papers for the U.S. from his uncle; transfer to Moscow to learn to be a communist; traveling to Paris; and emigration nine months later to the United States in 1949. Mr. H. discusses learning through the Red Cross that his mother and sister were killed; contact with the family of the German supervisor who helped him; and attributing his survival to "pure luck." He shows his camp uniform. 524 Charles H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3970). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. 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G. Farben. 700 1 Kaplan, Raymond, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4953580 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3970) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/kk9474717d 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/