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01/12/07
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Susan Millen

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Gerald F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, one of three children. He recounts his father being wounded in World War I; attending school; increasing antisemitism; attending a Jewish school; expropriation of his father's business; emigration to England via the Netherlands in 1938; working on a farm and attending evening classes at Cambridge University; his family joining him; imprisonment as an enemy alien; transfer to the Isle of Man five months later; reunion with his brother and father after his release; attending university in London; working as a chemist with Margaret Thatcher; and emigrating with his family to the United States in 1951. Mr. F. discusses the murders of many relatives in the Holocaust, and writing a book about his experiences. He shows documents, photographs, and books he has written.

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