- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Edgar A., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. He describes moving to Warsaw with his family in 1934 due to antisemitism; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; starvation and deportations; along with his mother, sister and aunt, being exempted from deportation due to his aunt's position as head of the children's hospital; participating in a classical orchestra; his sister's death; his father's escape to the Aryan side in January 1943; joining his father and aunt outside the ghetto; hiding with his father and aunt in a Polish friend's apartment in Źoliborz; his father purchasing an apartment in Bielany through a Polish acquaintance; clandestinely receiving money from the Joint and Bund; fleeing with his father and aunt to Bania after the Warsaw uprising of 1944; and liberation by Soviet troops in Gola. Mr. A. speaks of traveling with his father to Lublin; attending a music conservatory in Łódź; escaping to Paris after his father's death; and emigration to the United States two years later.
- Author/Creator
- A., Edgar, 1923-
- Published
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1983
- Interview Date
- March 5, 1983.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Warsaw (Poland)
Żoliborz (Warsaw, Poland)
Bielany (Warsaw, Poland)
Bania (Poland)
Gola (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Paris (France)
- Cite As
- Edgar A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-398). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Beckwitt, Morris, interviewer.
Perlsweig, Elaine, interviewer.