Eyewitness to History: Holocaust Survivor Henry Weil

The Eyewitness to History video library was created to enable audiences everywhere to hear firsthand testimony from Holocaust survivors. This video was created from a live digital program, First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors, recorded on June 21, 2023. It features Holocaust survivor Henry Weil, who was born in 1935, in Vienna, Austria. After Nazi Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, antisemitic legislation and violence prompted Henry’s father to make plans for the family to emigrate. In 1939, the family was forced out of their apartment, and a week later they began their journey to safety. The Weils made their way to Paris and then England, fearing bombings and air raids along the way. Henry and his parents left for the United States on the SS Aquitania on September 9, 1939. Later, Henry learned that half of his extended family had been murdered in the Holocaust.

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