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30/04/92
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Joni-Sue Blinderman

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Frederick S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907. He recalls his family's financial instability; completing law school in 1931; supporting his mother after his father's death; arrest following the Anschluss in 1938; incarceration and receiving a severe beating; transfer to Dachau; his release after obtaining an English visa with assistance from his boss and the Quakers; traveling to England in March 1939; working for a committee helping Czech refugees; arranging for his mother and fiancee to join him; their emigration to the United States; marriage to his fiancee; military draft in 1943; assignment to Naples in March 1944; serving in Algiers and southern France; serving as an interpreter at trials of U.S. soldiers accused of crimes against German civilians; visiting Dachau after its liberation; reunion with his brother in Marseille; assignments in Heidelberg and Antwerp; returning to the United States; and studying to become a social worker. Mr. S. notes his three siblings survived and his hostility toward Austria. He shows photographs.

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