Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Harry J., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1932, the second youngest of eight siblings. He recounts their relative affluence and orthodoxy; German invasion; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker with his family during round-ups; one brother's deportation to Treblinka; smuggling themselves into the small ghetto; hiding with his younger brother, then with his mother and younger brother; his mother ordering him to join his sisters at HASAG Pelzery, knowing the younger boy could not survive; slave labor in a munitions factory; visiting his sisters; their “release” in January 1945; walking to Herby; separation from his sisters; train transport to Gross-Rosen, Dora, then Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; many prisoners dying; finding food in a nearby village; transfer to Celle displaced persons camp; moving to Gardenlegen, to Zeilsheim to join his four surviving sisters, then to Föhrenwald; emigration to the United States in summer 1949; and two sisters joining him later (the other two went to Israel). Mr. J. discusses his education and seldom sharing his story with his children.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2006
- Interview Date
- March 16, 2006.
- Locale
- Poland
Częstochowa
Herby (Poland)
Gardelegen (Germany)
Braunschweig (Germany) - Cite As
- Harry J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4344). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: DVCam master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 45 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Częstochowa. Forced labor. Brothers and sisters. Refugee camps. Poland. Oral histories (document genres) Herby (Poland) Gardelegen (Germany) Braunschweig (Germany) J., Harry,--1932- Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/7473547
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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