- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Abe H., who was born in Opole Lubelski, Poland in 1925, one of eight children. Mr. H. recounts the family's move to Łódź when he was six; attending school until he began his apprenticeship as a tailor; the extreme poverty; his father's death in 1938; rumors of war; mobilization; German invasion; and restrictions on Jews. He describes ghettoization; extreme food shortages; organization of the ghetto under Ḥayim Rumkowski; his sister opening a tailor shop in which he worked; deportations; transports of German, Czech, and Belgian Jews into the ghetto; deportation of his mother and siblings in 1944; transport with his sister to Auschwitz; transport to Dachau a short time later; slave labor in a sub-camp factory; a death march in April 1945; being saved by a friend; receiving food from a German guard; and liberation by American troops on April 30. Mr. H. tells of living in displaced persons camps; returning to Poland to find his sister; joining a brother in Paris in 1948; emigration to the United States in 1953 to join his sister who had been with him in Auschwitz; and naming his children after murdered relatives.
- Author/Creator
- H., Abe, 1925-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987
- Interview Date
- May 17, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Opole Lubelskie (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
- Cite As
- Abe H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-899). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Morton, Peggy, interviewer.
