top of page

<message>

<PARTNERlINK>
IMG_7512.jpg

Get Transcript

Read the transcript online.

View Tape 1

Name

Born:

N/A

Place of Birth:

N/A

Date of Interview:

01/12/90

Place of Interview:

Interviewed by:

Name (Clickable)

5.jpg

It looks like this interview is hosted by one of our partners

Please click the link below to be redirected...

Visit Partner Website

INTERVIEW:

<name>

Born:

00/00/0000

Place of Birth:

Berlin

<name>

Born:

00/00/0000

Place of Birth:

Institution:

<partnerName>

Collection:

Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive

Date of Interview:

01/12/90

Interviewed By:

Michael Alpert

View Tape 2
View Tape 3
View Tape 4
View Tape 5
View Tape 6
View Tape 7
View Tape 8
View Tape 9
View Tape 10
View Tape 11
View Tape 12
View Tape 13
View Tape 14
View Tape 15
View Tape 16
View Tape 17
View Tape 18
View Tape 19

Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Rudy B., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recalls encountering "genteel" antisemitism before 1933; moving to Amsterdam immediately after Hitler's election; getting his parents and younger brother to Holland (his mother died prior to German invasion, his father in a concentration camp, and his brother emigrated to the United States); joining the Dutch military; escaping with a friend in 1941; traveling to Geneva via Lyon and Lons-le-Saunier; imprisonment; release after intervention by the Dutch consul; traveling to England using false papers via Marseille, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, and Gibraltar; commando training in Scotland; serving in Burma; being wounded; recovering in India; returning to England; meeting with the Dutch queen; training Dutch underground forces in eastern Holland; returning to England after liberation; interrogating German prisoners in Spandau prison; serving in Borneo; and emigrating to the United States in 1947. Mr. B. notes his older brother perished in a concentration camp. He discusses his military and underground activities; encounters with the Dutch prince; reluctance of German and Dutch Jews to grasp the dangers of Nazism; and the importance of fighting antisemitism, both on a personal and collective basis. He shows photographs and memorabilia.
View Tape 20
View Tape 21
View Tape 22
bottom of page