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Norman L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-538) interviewed by Allen M. Siegel and Sondra Kraff,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-538

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Norman L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1919. He recalls German invasion; moving into the ghetto with his parents; obtaining an apartment by becoming a building manager; starvation and frequent deaths; his depression; the shock of witnessing a brutal killing; his family's deportation to Treblinka (he never saw them again); obtaining a factory job with his friend's assistance; working until November 1942; escaping with assistance from a garbage collector; acquiring false papers from a non-Jewish acquaintance; renting an apartment and selling soap, posing as a non-Jew; arrest during the Warsaw uprising in August 1944; forced labor at the Heinkel factory in Oranienburg/Sachsenhausen; deportation to Pruszków; slave labor in Zwieberge/Halberstadt; a hospitalization during which he recovered his strength; escaping during the death march; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. L. describes returning to Poland; brief arrest by the Soviets; marriage; and emigration to the United States in 1964.
    Author/Creator
    L., Norman, 1919-
    Published
    Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1984
    Interview Date
    March 3, 1984.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Cite As
    Norman L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-538). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Siegel, Allen M., interviewer.
    Kraff, Sondra, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 15 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    False papers.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.
    Hospitals in concentration camps.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1108229
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:46:00
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