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Margot Brandes

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Kenneth F., who was born in Richtenberg, Germany in 1921. He recounts attending the local public school and religious school in Stralsund; non-Jewish friends not longer associating with him after they joined the Hitler Youth; the impact of the Nuremberg laws, including not being allowed to employ non-Jews; living with his aunt in Berlin in fall 1935 to attend a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; matriculation in 1938; masonry training in preparation for emigration; receiving permission to emigrate to Manchester, England as a trainee in 1939; working as a brick-layer trainee from March to September; internment as an enemy alien in 1940; corresponding with his family through relatives in neutral countries; enlisting in the British military in November; postings in Tunisia, Italy, France, and Germany; encountering a railroad car stacked with corpses; returning to Berlin with the British occupation; military discharge in 1946; returning to Manchester; joining his future wife, originally from Berlin, in the United States in 1947; marriage; and the births of two children. Mr. F. discusses the deportations and murders of his parents and many other relatives.

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