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31/05/92
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Elliot Perry

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Frank B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928. He recalls his family's affluence; pervasive antisemitism; his family's strong German identity; not feeling Jewish or observing any holidays; anti-Jewish restrictions changing that feeling; attending a Jewish school; emigration to Prague in 1938 (his father was a Czech citizen); attending Jewish school; German occupation in March 1939; his father's position in the Judenrat which protected them from deportation; participating in a Zionist youth group and Maccabi; working as a gardener in the Jewish cemetery; his bar mitzvah; a former German colleague sending funds to his father; deportation to Theresienstadt in July 1943; visiting his parents daily; a variety of jobs; sharing extra food with his mother; learning advanced mathematics and music from barrack mates; lectures, concerts, and discussions groups; pervasive disease and starvation; his father's deportation to Auschwitz; his and his mother's ten days later in October 1944; separation from his mother (neither parent survived); transfer to Friedland two days later; slave labor in factories and digging anti-tank ditches; disappearance of the guards in April; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Prague; staying with an aunt; working in Teplice; hearing from relatives in England through the Red Cross; joining them in May 1946; becoming an engineer; marriage; briefly living in Canada; and raising two daughters.

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