Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Amos T., who was born in Tel Aviv, Palestine in 1926 and raised in Zawiercie, Poland. He describes his Hebrew education; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to flee east with his father; the Judenrat's role in organizing the ghetto and supplying forced labor; hiding to avoid deportation; attending the Judenrat's electricians' training; forced labor at an ammunition factory; separation from his parents during the ghetto's liquidation in August 1943 (he never saw his mother again); assistance from the factory administration; obtaining documents as a non-Jew from a Zionist group; escaping two months later with assistance from a Polish woman; traveling to Gleiwitz with assistance from a Pole; volunteering for forced labor in Germany as a Pole; factory work in Ottmuth labor camp; exposure as a Jew; deportation to Ebensee; and liberation by United States troops. Mr.T. recalls reunion with his father in Munich; participating in the Dachau war crime trial; emigration to the United States in September 1950; and testifying at a trial in Hamburg in 1984. He discusses the German tactic of killing hostages to prevent resistance; difficulties explaining these events to his son; and the need for revenge.
- Published
- Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1986
- Interview Date
- November 9, 1986.
- Locale
- Poland
Zawiercie
Germany
Hamburg
Dachau
Palestine
Tel Aviv (Israel)
Zawiercie (Poland)
Gleiwitz (Germany)
Opole (Poland)
Munich (Germany) - Cite As
- Amos T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-798). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 19 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hiding.
Bunkers.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish councils. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Zawiercie. Forced labor. War crime trials--Germany--Hamburg. Revenge. Escapes. War crime trials--Germany--Dachau. Palestine. Tel Aviv (Israel) Zawiercie (Poland) Gleiwitz (Germany) Opole (Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) T., Amos,--1926- Ottmuth (Concentration camp) Ebensee (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/1108244
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1108244
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