Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Bernard T., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920 to a family of six children. He recalls family life; German occupation; ghettoization; smuggling food; his inability to save his mother, sisters, and three-year-old brother from deportation in 1942 (he never saw them again); his deportation through Lublin to Budzyń; working in the fields, then at an airplane factory; working in airplane factories in Mielec and Weliczka; transfer to Flossenbürg; an unsuccessful escape attempt; transfer to Dachau; escape from a death march; hiding in a barn; liberation; watching survivors dying from their inability to digest food; traveling to Munich; working in a kitchen for four years in Frankfurt am Main; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. T. discusses the importance of taking chances to his survival.
- Published
- Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
- Interview Date
- May 20, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Frankfurt am Main (Germany) - Cite As
- Bernard T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2412). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (56 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hiding.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Escapes. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Lublin (Poland) Munich (Germany) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. T., Bernard,--1920- Budzyn (Concentration camp) Wieliczka (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1083427
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1083427
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