Henry F. Holocaust testimony
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1998 September 18
HVT 3969
Henry F. Holocaust testimony
2 videocassettes
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Videotape testimony of Henry F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918, one of five children. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-2442), Mr. F. recounts attending public school; joining Betar; his bar mitzvah; working in a munitions factory in 1933; his father's arrest and deportation in 1942 (he was killed in Sachsenhausen); being beaten so badly in Wulkow that his teeth were knocked out; transfer to Schnarchenreuth; liberation from Theresienstadt by Soviet troops; assaulting his fomer housekeeper's daughter (she had spit on his mother before their deportation); assistance from UNRRA: marriage to a survivor whom he met in Deggendorf; and his daughter's birth. Mr. F. notes he speaks in schools about his experiences. He shows documents, and his yellow star badge.