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Arnold R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-592) interviewed by Sondra F. Kraff and Lya Dym Rosenblum,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-592

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Arnold R., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1920. He recalls graduating from a technical school in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; moving to the ghetto area with his family; escaping to Tomaszów Mazowiecki in 1940 (he never saw his parents again); working as a painter; ghettoization; smuggling food into the ghetto in a network organized by the ghetto leaders; liquidation of the ghetto in November 1942; avoiding deportation with assistance from a German officer; forced labor in the remaining small ghetto; transfer to Bliżyn in 1943; slave labor in an ammunition factory; an unsuccessful attempt to construct an escape tunnel; deportation to Auschwitz, then Birkenau, in September 1944; working as a mechanic, dismantling aircraft, until January 17, 1945; and evacuation.
Author/Creator: R., Arnold, 1920-
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1984
Interview Date: November 11, 1984.
Locale: Poland
Łódź
Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Łódź (Poland)
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
Cite As: Arnold R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-592). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Rosenblum, Lya Dym, interviewer.
Kraff, Sondra F., 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., 29 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Jews--Poland--Tomaszów Mazowiecki. Forced labor. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) R., Arnold,--1920- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Blizyn (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/1108257
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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