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01/02/92

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Helen Cohn

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Interview Summary

Videotape testimony of Steven L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. He recalls attending secular school; increased prosperity when Hitler came to power; having to transfer to a Jewish school; attending technical school in Bodenbach, Czechoslovakia (now Podmokly); moving to London in 1939; visiting his girlfriend in Poland in August 1939; German invasion which prevented his return; bombardment of Warsaw; brief incarceration as a German spy; joining his girlfriend's family in Kraków; traveling to Amsterdam to join his parents (they were there due to his father's influence in Germany and his ability to pay); German invasion in May 1940; illegally entering Brussels; arrest; transfer to Malines; a beating by an SS guard; forced labor in a clothing factory; being told by an SS guard not to board a deportation train; stampedes and shootings of prisoners; repairing watches for German soldiers; emptying trucks of prisoners' corpses; release in a German prisoner exchange; hiding prior to liberation; marriage in Brussels; and emigration to the United States in 1946. Mr. L. discusses his reluctance to share his experiences with his children and his lack of religious beliefs.
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