- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Irving C., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1915. He describes a childhood of extreme poverty; working as a tailor; German occupation; slave labor and beatings; fleeing to Białystok; staying with his sister and brother in a synagogue; meeting his future wife and her father; registering to go to the Soviet Union; traveling with his brother, sister, future wife, and her father in cattle cars to Omsk; his marriage; living in barracks on the outskirts of Omsk; hard labor, then working as a tailor; his daughter's birth; a year's military service in Kalachinsk; returning to Omsk; traveling with his wife and her father to Poland in 1945; learning neither his nor his wife's relatives survived; and having to place their daughter in an orphanage while living in a kibbutz in Wrocław. Mr. C. describes smuggling across the Soviet border to Czechoslovakia; living in a displaced persons camp in Austria; transfer to other camps in Lechfeld and Augsburg; and emigration to the United States.
- Author/Creator
- C., Irving, 1915-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
- Interview Date
- March 30, 1995.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź (Poland)
Białystok (Poland)
Omsk (Russia)
Wrocław (Poland)
Kalachinsk (Russia)
- Cite As
- Irving C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2816). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Bella C. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-2817), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
