- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Victor L., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1918. He describes attending Polish school; antisemitic incidents; active membership in Akiba; one sister's emigration to Palestine; his father's reluctance to emigrate to Palestine; entering his father's business in 1937; assisting Jewish refugees from Germany; German invasion; returning home after Germans overtook him fleeing east; using false papers to feign an authorized job; ghettoization; visiting his parents in Niepołomice; arranging their move to the Kraków ghetto in 1942; escaping with his brother from a deportation train (he never saw his parents again); briefly living in the Bochnia ghetto; building barracks at Płaszów, then working as an electrician; public hangings, frequent beatings, and killings; transfer to Gross-Rosen in October 1944, then to Brünnlitz with Oskar Schindler's Jews; joining a resistance group; their relations with outside partisans; assistance from Schindler; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. L. recounts reunion with his brother and fiancee; learning of his youngest brother's death; traveling to Vienna; marriage; and emigration to the United States. He discusses sharing his experiences with his children; visiting Poland with his daughter; and helping support Schindler after the war. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- L., Victor, 1918-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
- Interview Date
- April 4, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Bochnia
Kraków (Poland)
Niepołomice (Poland)
Vienna (Austria)
- Cite As
- Victor L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2928). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rappaport, Naomi, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Leon L. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-2929), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
