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Bernard T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2412) interviewed by Gayla D. Spurlock and Mary Davidson Cohen,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2412

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Bernard T., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920 to a family of six children. He recalls family life; German occupation; ghettoization; smuggling food; his inability to save his mother, sisters, and three-year-old brother from deportation in 1942 (he never saw them again); his deportation through Lublin to Budzyń; working in the fields, then at an airplane factory; working in airplane factories in Mielec and Weliczka; transfer to Flossenbürg; an unsuccessful escape attempt; transfer to Dachau; escape from a death march; hiding in a barn; liberation; watching survivors dying from their inability to digest food; traveling to Munich; working in a kitchen for four years in Frankfurt am Main; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Mr. T. discusses the importance of taking chances to his survival.
    Author/Creator
    T., Bernard, 1920-
    Published
    Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994
    Interview Date
    May 20, 1994.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Lublin (Poland)
    Munich (Germany)
    Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
    Cite As
    Bernard T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2412). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Spurlock, Gayla D., interviewer.
    Cohen, Mary Davidson, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (56 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hiding.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1083427
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
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