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Aaron E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2317) interviewed by Raya C. Schapiro and Sondra Kraft,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2317

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Aaron E., who was born in Sokołów Podlaski, Poland in 1933. He describes his father's non-kosher butcher shop; German occupation; ghettoization; smuggling out of the ghetto to deliver meat; selections from which no one returned; fear of death from overhearing adult conversations; forced labor on a farm with his family in 1942; being discovered while hiding with his family during the ghetto's liquidation; escaping; his younger sister's deportation to Treblinka; his mother sending him to his other sister to hide with a Polish woman; hiding in her attic until liberation; living with his sister and uncle in Łódź, then in an orphanage; illegally traveling to Germany with his sister; living with her in Fürth and Neufreimann displaced persons camps; their emigration to the United States in June 1947; living in an orphanage, then in a loving home; difficulties in school; service in Korea; marriage; and the births of two sons, named for relatives who perished. Mr. E. discusses the loss of his childhood and parents; emotional problems resulting from his experiences, including being an overprotective parent; nightmares; a close relationship with his sister; and his sense of being a perpetual "outsider."
    Author/Creator
    E., Aaron, 1933-
    Published
    Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1992
    Interview Date
    May 31, 1992.
    Locale
    Poland
    Sokołów Podlaski
    Sokołów Podlaski (Poland)
    Łódź (Poland)
    Cite As
    Aaron E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2317). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Schapiro, Raya Czerner
    Kraft, Sondra, interviewer.
    Notes
    Associated material: Irene B. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-2318), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 6 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1113643
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:32:00
    This page:
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