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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

Overview

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.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Death marches. Escapes. Forced labor. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944. Oral histories (document genres) L., Norman,--1919- Ernst Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke. Oranienburg (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Pruszków (Concentration camp)

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/1108229
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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