- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jerrit A., who was born in Amsterdam in 1909. He describes aspects of prewar life in the Jewish section of Amsterdam; the beginnings of anti-Jewish legislation and forced labor; being rounded up, with his wife and three children, by the SA and taken to Westerbork; his separation from his wife and children, when he was forcibly removed from the deportation train (which continued to Auschwitz, where his family was killed); and being taken as a slave laborer to Cosel, in Silesia. He speaks of his transfer to Niederkirch, where most of the prisoners were also Dutch; to Seifersdorf, where slave labor and starvation conditions caused the deaths of many prisoners; and to Blechhammer, where he remained until its liquidation in 1944. Mr. A. recalls the death march to Gross Rosen; his transfer from there to Buchenwald; his liberation by the Americans in April 1945; and his postwar return to Holland.
- Author/Creator
- A., Jerrit, 1909-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Holocaust Survivors Film Project, 1980
- Interview Date
- May 30, 1980.
- Locale
- Netherlands
Amsterdam
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Cite As
- Jerrit A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-208). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Laub, Dori, interviewer.
Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Klara A. and Donald W. Holocaust testimony [wife and stepson] (HVT-201), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
