- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Wolf F., who was born in Sawin, Poland and raised in Głogów. He remembers his family's orthodoxy; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; forced labor; the family's transfer to the Rzeszów ghetto in 1941; escaping from a round-up with his younger brother (he never saw his family again); his older brother hiding them; being shot during a round-up; his brother arranging for medical care; their transfer to Szebnie; public hangings and mass killings; deportation to Auschwitz in 1942 with his younger brother (he never saw his older brother again); separation from his younger brother upon arrival (he never saw him again); transfer to Zgoda (Świętochłowice) from Birkenau; his privileged position as a messenger; sharing extra food with fellow prisoners; a revolt by Soviet POWs; slave labor in a gun factory; sabotaging the work; transfer to Mauthausen in December 1944; witnessing cannibalism; a death march to Donnerskirchen in March 1945; disappearance of guards in May; living in displaced persons camps near Linz, and in Bindermichl; transfer to Munich, then Bremerhaven; and emigration to the United States in December 1946. Mr. F. discusses the importance of brotherhood in concentration camps; recurring nightmares; and recent trips to Poland.
- Author/Creator
- F., Wolf.
- Published
- Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1990
- Interview Date
- 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Rzeszów
Sawin (Poland)
Głogów Małopolski (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Bremerhaven (Germany)
- Cite As
- Wolf F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1540). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Osadchey, Lidya, interviewer.
Cohn, Helen, interviewer.
