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Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Eric E., who was born in Rastatt, Germany in 1921. He recalls anti-Jewish laws resulting in loss of the family business; moving to Westphalia where his father worked for former employees; his terror when hiding in a haystack alone during Kristallnacht; his father's incarceration in Buchenwald; his mother arranging for him to join a kindertransport to England; leaving the day of his father's release; living in Harwich for several months; an apprenticeship; living with a family; learning his parents had gone to Belgium; emigrating to the United States in 1940, believing he could better help his parents from there; assistance from HIAS in obtaining documents for them; borrowing money to get them to southern France; their arrival in New York in February 1942; his draft in March 1943; overseas posting in January 1944; combat service in Italy, France, and Germany; finding relatives in France in spring, 1945; celebrating Rosh ha-Shanah in Munich; returning to the U.S. in December; marriage to a survivor in 1947; and meeting people from his past over the years. He shows photographs.

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