Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Karl K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1916, one of two brothers. He recounts attending public school, then gymnasium; playing sports for Maccabi; his older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; military draft in 1937; the Anschluss; expulsion from the army with other Jewish soldiers two months later; increasing antisemitism; round-up with his father on Kristallnacht; his father's release due to his age; deportation to Dachau; slave labor cleaning nearby houses; assistance from the non-Jewish blockaltester; release on June 6 based on his pledge to emigrate within a month; his parents obtaining a ticket for him to Shanghai; traveling to Trieste, intending to emigrate to Palestine; his mother writing that his father had died; failed attempts to obtain papers for Palestine; traveling illegally to Banghāzī; capture and imprisonment in Naples; brief incarceration in Ferramonti, a few years in Nereto, then Giulianova; forced labor building roads; escaping to Nereto; hiding with assistance from a non-Jew; moving to Rome; liberation; and illegal emigration to Palestine in 1945. He notes hardly feeling the war due to the help of Italians.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1998
- Interview Date
- March 25, 1998.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Trieste (Italy)
Banghāzī (Libya)
Naples (Italy)
Nereto (Italy)
Giulianova (Italy)
Palestine
Rome (Italy) - Cite As
- Karl K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3997). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 7 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Draft. Kristallnacht, 1938. Forced labor. Jews--Migration. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Italian. Escapes. Austria. Vienna (Austria) Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Trieste (Italy) Banghāzī (Libya) Naples (Italy) Nereto (Italy) Giulianova (Italy) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Rome (Italy) Oral histories (document genres) K., Karl,--1916- Maccabi World Union. Dachau (Concentration camp) Ferramonti (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4582276
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4582276
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