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Hubert W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2809) interviewed by Lawrence L. Langer and Lucille B. Ritvo,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2809

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Hubert W., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He describes moving to Prague with his family when he was five; working as a clerk prior to German occupation; hiding his Jewish identity when he was employed as a secretary-translator for a newspaper; deportation to Breslau as a non-Jewish slave laborer; working as a translator; his deportation to Auschwitz after his mother revealed his whereabouts; meaningless labor; seeing his father; the death march to Mauthausen; liberation on May 5, 1945; recovering from typhus in Prague; a reunion with his mother in Terezín; traveling with her to Vienna; working as a secretary for the Joint in Munich; and emigrating to the United States with the Joint's assistance. Mr. W. speaks of the sadness evoked by his memories of the Holocaust and his good relations with the non-Jewish inmates in Breslau.
Author/Creator: W., Hubert, 1920-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
Interview Date: February 2, 1995.
Locale: Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Wrocław (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Cite As: Hubert W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2809). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,

Physical Details

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

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Fathers and sons. Austria. Vienna (Austria) Prague (Czech Republic) Wrocław (Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. W., Hubert,--1920- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (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/1089262
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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