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• Author/Creator:C., Alfred, 1924-
  
• Title:Alfred C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-751) [videorecording] / interviewed by Diane Fagelman and Peter Ullman, March 16, 1986.
  
• Published/Created:Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1986.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 45 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.0751)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Alfred C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1924, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his grandfather was a cantor and his father an opera singer; his father's dismissal from his job in 1933 due to Nazi anti-Jewish laws; their resulting poverty; assistance from the Jewish community; attending a Jewish school; antisemitic harassment and boycotts; obtaining documents for two from relatives in the United States; his father's and brother's emigration in June 1938; his father and brother obtaining visas for him and his mother; traveling to Hamburg on Kristallnacht; the ship journey to the U.S.; his father's work as an entertainer; military draft; assignment to intelligence training due to his fluent German; deployment in Europe with the 78th Infantry Division and following the 4th Armored Division; interrogating prisoners in Germany; visiting Buchenwald shortly after liberation; piles of corpses, the overwhelming stench, and emaciated survivors; following Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton when they visited; searching for war criminals in Berlin; arresting Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”); meeting his brother in Frankfurt; visiting their apartment; finding and shipping home family belongings, including a piano; marriage to the daughter of his parents' friends from Frankfurt; his daughter's birth in 1953; and his career as a teacher. Mr. C. discusses the importance of his family's musical heritage to his life.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Alfred C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-751). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:C., Alfred, 1924-
  Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945.
  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
  Gillars, Mildred, 1900-1988.
  United States. Army. Infantry Division, 78th.
  United States. Army. Armored Division, 4th.
  Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jews--Migrations.
  Jewish refugees.
  Kristallnacht, 1938.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American.
  World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
  Germany.
  Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
  Berlin (Germany)
  Hamburg (Germany)
  Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
  United States--Armed Forces--Europe.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Crystal Night, 1938.
  Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Postwar experiences.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Fagelman, Diane, interviewer.
  Ullman, Peter, interviewer.