- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Harry C., who was born in Narvik, Norway, to a British father and Danish mother. He recalls a stepbrother from his father's first marriage; German bombardment; incarceration in Grini for about nine months; his mother's parents bribing a high Nazi official to free them; their "escape" to Copenhagen, with assistance from the underground in both countries (he never saw his father again); being warned of German deportations in fall 1943; departing from Kastrup to Landskrona, Sweden on boats, an underground operation; living in Göteborg until the end of the war; returning to Narvik; moving to Copenhagen due to his mother's illness; his mother's remarriage; moving to Göteborg; his mother's wish that he live in Israel in order to marry a Jewish woman; living on a kibbutz; meeting his future wife, an American; their marriage in the United States in 1963; returning to Israel; and settling in the United States. Mr. C. notes learning that his father, grandfather, and three uncles were deported to Auschwitz together; his brother's death in 1977; his mother's death at age sixty-one; and his sons' lack of interest in his experiences.
- Author/Creator
- C., Harry, 1939-
- Published
- Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1997
- Interview Date
- May 14, 1997.
- Locale
- Norway
Denmark
Israel
Göteborg (Sweden)
Landskrona (Sweden)
Kastrup (Denmark)
Narvik (Norway)
Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Cite As
- Harry C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3982). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kaplan, Zelda, interviewer.
Remis, Deborah Shelkan, interviewer.
