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Harry W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-441) interviewed by Ian Russ,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-441

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Orekhovno, Poland. He recalls growing up in a family of five sisters and three brothers; participating in the Zionist organization, he-Haluts; draft into the Polish army in 1937; discharge in March and recall in July 1939; capture by Germans on September 19; transfer to jail in Kałuszyn; release to a prisoner of war camp on October 25; transfer to Krems and other prisons in Germany; participating in a strike for equal treatment of Jewish prisoners; transfer to Gorlice; deportation to Lublin (Lipowa 7)in January 1941; burying corpses; interrogations and beatings in a Radom prison; deportation to prisons in Germany including Tellingstedt and Hamborn; forced labor in a salt mine; and liberation by British troops on April 12, 1945. Mr. W. speaks of traveling with his friend to Bergen-Belsen; returning home; fleeing to Bergen-Belsen after harassment by Poles; and marriage in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in August 1946.
Author/Creator: W., Harry.
Published: Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1983
Interview Date: June 18, 1983.
Locale: Poland
Orekhovno (Belarus)
Kałuszyn (Warsaw, Poland)
Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Cite As: Harry W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-441). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Russ, Ian, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (50 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Postwar.
Resistance.
Postwar experiences.
Zionist organizations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Prisoners of war--Poland. Draft--Poland. Forced labor. Poland. Orekhovno (Belarus) Kałuszyn (Warsaw, Poland) Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. W., Harry. Histadrut he-Ḥaluts be-Polin. DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.

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/1098944
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:24:00
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