Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Cy J., who was born in Zduńska Wola, Poland in 1914. He recalls the outbreak of war; beatings and killings during a brief imprisonment with his father and brother; his brother fleeing to Russia; his sister fleeing to Ukraine; ghettoization; efforts of Jakub Lemberg, the head of the Judenrat, to save lives; public hangings; working at an ammunition factory; mass killings at the cemetery during the ghetto's liquidation led by Hans Biebow in 1942; transfer to the Łódź ghetto; his father's death; unloading freight trains; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then Althammer; transfer to Ellrich, then Bergen-Belsen; and liberation by British troops. Mr. J. recounts a fellow prisoner's protest against a German family who would not feed them; recuperating in Landskrona, Sweden; moving to Stockholm; telling his story at a church service; compassion from many Swedes; reunion with his brother who had been in Russia; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1952. He details many atrocities in the ghettos and camps, and efforts of prisoners to help each other.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1990
- Interview Date
- October 28, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Zduńska Wola
Łódź
Zduńska Wola (Poland)
Landskrona (Sweden)
Stockholm (Sweden) - Cite As
- Cy J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1666). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 1 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Mass killings.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Zduńska Wola. Forced labor. Revenge. Jewish councils. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Fathers and sons. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. Poland. Zduńska Wola (Poland) Landskrona (Sweden) Stockholm (Sweden) Oral histories (document genres) Biebow, Hans,--1902-1947. J., Cy,--1915- Lemberg, Jakub. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Ellrich (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/1110359
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1110359
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