- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Eric S., who was born in Gymnich, Germany, in 1915. Mr. S. recalls childhood in a small Catholic town; going to Cologne in 1930 to learn office skills; being forced by Nazis to leave his position with a Jewish company in Frankfurt; returning home to help in the family tannery; pillaging of the business during Kristallnacht; incarceration with his two brothers; transport to Dachau; their release because they had documents to leave Germany; emigration with his brothers to Kenya (his parents remained and perished); and arrival in Mombasa. He tells of a Jewish organization which paid their landing fees, and agreeing in return to work on a plantation near Nairobi; learning English and Swahili; settlement assistance received from the local Jewish community; brief internment as an enemy alien in 1939; supplying meat to a camp for Italian POWs from Ethiopia; unsuccessful efforts to join his sister in South Africa; and emigrating to America in 1949.
- Author/Creator
- S., Eric, 1915-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1990
- Interview Date
- June 4, 1990.
- Locale
- Germany
Gymnich (Erftstadt, Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Cologne (Germany)
Dachau (Germany : Concentration camp)
Mombasa (Kenya)
Nairobi (Kenya)
- Cite As
- Eric S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1320). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
