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Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive
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30/06/92
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Charles J. Ticho
Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Kurt G., who was born in a small town in Westphalia, Germany in 1917. One of fifteen children in a poor family, he recalls leaving home at age fourteen; an apprenticeship in Upper Silesia until 1937; his close friendship with the owner of a Berlin factory where he worked; Nazi attacks on students; fending off an SS assault; avoiding arrest during Kristallnacht by hiding in various locations in Berlin; escaping with three friends to Ter Apel, Netherlands; capture and return to Germany; five weeks in prison in Emden, then Berlin; emigration to England in March 1939; working with German friends to construct a refugee camp; relocation as enemy aliens to the Isle of Man, then Québec; fights with German prisoners of war; returning to England; marriage in Wales; transfer to London; volunteering as a "firewatcher" during bombing raids; and emigration to the United States after the war. He describes how most of his siblings were killed during the Holocaust.