Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Charles P., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1923. He relates his family's emigration to Palestine, then France in 1926; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; a printer's apprenticeship; German invasion; a futile attempt to join the Resistance in Poitiers; printing Resistance papers in his father's Paris print shop; fleeing to Lyon in 1943; acquiring false papers in Montluel; arrest by the Gestapo; declaring himself a Jew to avoid more torture in Montluc; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Birkenau; slave labor in coal mines in Jawischowitz; relations between prisoners from different countries and with different political affiliations; and transfer to a print shop in Auschwitz. Mr. P. describes the death march in January 1945; two days in open train cars to Mauthausen; working in the print shop; transfer to Melk, then Ebensee in April; liberation by United States troops; prisoners killing kapos; repatriation to Metz via Nuremberg; recuperating for several years; reclaiming his father's print shop in 1949; and marriage in 1954. He notes his reluctance to discuss his experiences and shows photographs and medals.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 9, 1993.
- Locale
- France
Metz (France)
Poland
Olkusz (Poland)
Palestine
Paris (France)
Poitiers (France)
Lyon (France)
Montluel (France)
Nuremberg (Germany) - Cite As
- Charles P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2661). 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 (3 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Zionist organizations.
Resistance.
False papers.
Postwar experiences.
Hiding.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. Death marches. Revenge. Metz (France) Poland. Olkusz (Poland) Palestine. Paris (France) Poitiers (France) Lyon (France) Montluel (France) Nuremberg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) P., Charles,--1923- World Hashomer Hatzair. Montluc (Prison : France) Drancy (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Melk (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Jawischowitz (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/1109452
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1109452
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