- Summary
- Videotape testimony of William U., who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (later southeastern Poland) in 1913. He describes two older brothers emigrating, one prior to his birth; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; joining Zionist groups; attending school in Lʹviv and Warsaw; teaching; Polish military draft; German invasion; being wounded; hospitalization; German takeover of the military hospital; release after three months; traveling to the Soviet zone; arrest in Przemyśl; release when his identity was verified; returning home; teaching in Lʹviv; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; a non-Jewish former student providing him with documents as a non-Jew; helping Jewish friends hide; traveling to Legionowo, then Warsaw; returning to Lʹviv; hiding in his former building superintendent's cellar; capture; incarceration in Janowska; escape the next day; hiding again; liberation by Soviet troops; a Pole shooting him after learning he was Jewish; Metropolitan Andriĭ Sheptyt︠s︡ḱyĭ providing medical help; finding a niece; traveling to Berlin, then Łódź; living in Schlachtensee displaced persons camp; assistance from the Joint; and emigrating to the United States in 1946 (he met his brother). Mr. U. discusses wanting to help others since so many helped him survive and the importance of providing a Jewish heritage to his daughters. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- U., William, 1913-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- April 13, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Ukraine
Lʹviv
Austria
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Przemyśl (Poland)
Legionowo (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
Łódź (Poland)
- Cite As
- William U. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1904). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Blum-Dobkin, Toby, interviewer.
