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Edgar A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-398) interviewed by Morris Beckwitt and Elaine Perlsweig,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-398

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    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.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (58 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1097622
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:44:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt1097622

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