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• Author/Creator:M., Manfred, 1917-
  
• Title:Manfred M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1742) [videorecording] / interviewed by Devorah Mann, January 9, 1991.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 14 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.1742)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotaped testimony of Manfred M., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1917, one of seven children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; working for the Warburg banking firm; an announcement in 1937 that the bank would become a German firm; Mr. Warburg leaving in tears; several of his own siblings leaving Germany; realizing he had to leave; asking Mr. Warburg for assistance; receiving papers to emigrate to the United States through Mr. Warburg's son; scheduling his emigration for November 11, 1938; Kristallnacht taking place on November 10; arrest shortly thereafter; incarceration in Sachsenhausen for eight days; release through his mother's efforts; and leaving for Amsterdam, and then the United States. Mr. M. notes his mother risked her life for him and that she did survive. He shows photographs.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Manfred M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1742). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:M., Manfred, 1917-
  Warburg, Max M., 1867-1946.
  Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jews--Migrations.
  Refugees, Jewish.
  Kristallnacht, 1938.
  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
  Germany.
  Hamburg (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Antisemitism--Prewar.
  Crystal Night, 1938.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Mann, Devorah, interviewer.