- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hyman L., who was born in 1922 in Błażowa, Poland. Mr. L describes German invasion and the murder of over 100 townspeople; ghettoization in Rzeszów in 1940; separation from his parents and other relatives (he never saw them again); forced labor cleaning streets; and deportation to the Mielec concentration camp in 1942. He recounts forced labor in an airplane factory; public torture of random prisoners as a warning against escaping; Jews from surrounding villages being buried alive outside the factory; and mass shootings of sick prisoners. Mr L. recalls his transfer to the Flossenbürg concentration camp; forced labor in an airplane factory in the Altenhammer commando; conditions of the camp; contracting typhus; liberation; transfer to Schwandorf displaced persons camp; trying to locate missing family (only one brother and a cousin survived); and immigration to the United States. Mr. L. discusses feeling grateful that he survived despite illness; the role of his Orthodox faith in survival; anger and inability to forgive the Germans; and his gratitude to the United States for opportunities in his later life.
- Author/Creator
- L., Hyman, 1922-
- Published
- Brookline, Mass: Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1990
- Interview Date
- March 19, 1995.
- Locale
- Poland
Błażowa
Błażowa (Poland)
Rzeszów (Poland)
Mielec (Poland)
Flossenbürg (Germany)
- Cite As
- Hyman L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4498). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Langer, Lawrence L. interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Faya L. Holocaust Testimony [wife] (HVT-4497), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
This testimony is in English.
