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• Author/Creator:P., Heinz, 1926-
  
• Title:Heinz P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1268) [videorecording] / interviewed by Helen Katz and Barbara Hadley Katz, December 16, 1996.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1996.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hr., 34 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1268)
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• Notes:3 copies: Betacam SP master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Heinz P., who was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1926. He describes his Jewish mother and non-Jewish father; his parents' divorce in 1929; his father joining the Nazi party; his father's remarriage; Kristallnacht in Oberkassel; moving to live with his father in Berlin in 1939; the outbreak of war; his father arranging his admission to a boarding school in Garmisch; his father's death in December 1941; returning to Oberkassel; his mother's deportation to Theresienstadt; living with his aunts in Dortmund, then Dresden, in 1942; working at a photo studio, then at an ammunition factory in December 1944; the bombardment of Dresden; fleeing to Nuremberg, then Münzberg; an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Swiss border; his arrest and interrogation; admitting that he is half Jewish; forced labor in Salza; the death march; escaping to Sigmaringen; liberation by French troops; traveling with a French hospital to Baden-Baden; reunion with his mother in Düsseldorf; and emigrating to the United States in 1949. He discusses his difficult adjustment to a new life, and his experiences resulting in numerous health problems.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Heinz P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1268). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:P., Heinz, 1926-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Interfaith marriage.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Children of interfaith marriage.
  Forced labor.
  Death marches.
  Escapes.
  Kristallnacht, 1938.
  Germany.
  Düsseldorf (Germany)
  Berlin (Germany)
  Oberkassel (Germany)
  Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany)
  Dortmund (Germany)
  Dresden (Germany)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Personal narratives.
  Nuremberg (Germany)
  Münzberg (Germany)
  Sigmaringen (Germany)
  Baden-Baden (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Crystal Night, 1938.
  Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Postwar experiences.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Postwar effects.
  Salza (Germany : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Katz, Helen, 1936- interviewer.
  Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.