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Description
- Title:
- Eyewitness account by Rolf S. Koenigsbuch regarding his family's experiences after 1933
- Summary:
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This report is a sworn statement in which the author tells what he and his family experienced in Hamburg from 1933 - 1939. Later, his parents were deported to Poland, after he and his brother were taken to England with a Kindertransport.
The father was forced to give up one business after the other to Nazis, as well as his lodgings. After a car accident, in which he was gravely injured, he went to court, won the case, but did not get a compensation; the bill amounting to RM 2000 was paid by a friend of his. From September to November 1938 he was in Buchenwald.
The report describes the school surrounded by SS; some children beaten; the author and his brother were rescued by a non-Jewish lady and teachers were arrested. Two SS-men smashing up a synagogue fell to their deaths.
In 1947, the two brothers were naturalised in England and served subsequently five years each in the British Army, in Korea and Malaysia respectively. Unable to find the jobs which would secure their future, they are trying to save the money for emigration to Canada.
- Witness:
- Koenigsbuch, Rolf S.
- Number of pages:
- 5 pieces
- Date(s):
- 1955
- Catalogue ID:
- 104767
- Reference number:
- 1656/2/1/175
- Date Range:
- 1933-1939
- Type of Material:
- Eyewitness account