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Yaakov E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3371)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3371

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Yaakov E., who was born in Częstochowa, Russia (presently Poland) in 1904. He recounts attending Jewish and Polish schools; starvation during World War I; marriage and the births of two children; leaving his family to work in Paris for two years during the Depression; German invasion; ghettoization; his mother's murder by Germans in 1942; burying her; deportation with his wife and children to Treblinka; his selection as a carpenter (his family was killed); sadistic public executions; escaping; assistance from a local non-Jews who brought him to Jewish partisans; fleeing when other non-Jews approached; returning to the Częstochowa ghetto via Warsaw with assistance from non-Jews; marriage to a cousin; slave labor; deportation; escaping from the train; returning to Częstochowa (now a camp); liberation with his wife by Soviet troops; and emigration to Israel in 1949. Mr. E. discusses being brought to Düsseldorf to provide information about Treblinka.
Author/Creator: E., Yaakov, 1904-
Published: Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
Interview Date: June 19, 1992.
Locale: Poland
Częstochowa
Russia
Częstochowa (Poland)
Paris (France)
Warsaw (Poland)
Düsseldorf (Germany)
Cite As: Yaakov E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3371). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Notes: This testimony is in Yiddish.

Physical Details

Language: Yiddish
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (3 hr., 43 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Wife Death.
Marriage in Jewish ghettos.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Częstochowa. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Husband and wife. Children--Death. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Russia. Częstochowa (Poland) Paris (France) Warsaw (Poland) Düsseldorf (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) E., Yaakov,--1904- Treblinka (Concentration camp) Częstochowa (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/4297464
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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