Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Albert B., who was born in Paris, France, in 1932. He recounts living in a Jewish neighborhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; the outbreak of war; his father's enlistment and internment as a prisoner of war; anti-Jewish measures; release with his mother and brother from a round-up in 1942 due to his father's military status; their arrest with other veterans' families in February 1944 (presumably as hostages for German POWs); deportation to Drancy for three months, then to Bergen-Belsen; transfer to a men's barrack (he could visit his mother); forced labor in a children's brigade; his mother's debilitated state (she was used for medical experiments); liberation from a train; recovering from typhus; their return to Paris; reunion with his father; and the kindness of his teachers when he returned to school. Mr. B. discusses at length his state of mind and intergroup relations in the camps; his inability to convey these experiences in words; postwar effects, including fear of the night, early maturation, and indifference; reluctance to discuss his experiences until his daughter's birth; his Jewish identity; and France's unwillingness to confront its role in the Holocaust.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992
- Interview Date
- May 15, 1992.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France) - Cite As
- Albert H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2104). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 53 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations.
Child survivors.
Postwar effects.
Aid by non-Jews. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Mothers and sons. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Forced labor. Identification (Religion) Human experimentation in medicine. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. France. Paris (France) Oral histories (document genres) Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. B., Albert,--1932- Drancy (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1100279
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1100279
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