Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Bernard O. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4467) interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Barbara Hadley Katz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4467

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Overview

    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Bernard O., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1937, an only child. He recalls his familys' affluence; their insistence he speak only Polish; German invasion; his father's mother giving them gold coins; joining relatives in Warsaw; moving to the Piotrków ghetto; his mother obtaining false papers for herself and him; taking a train with her (his father was hidden with non-Jews); observing Gestapo inspecting papers; jumping off the train without their documents; entering the nearby Radom ghetto; his mother contacting his father; his father joining them; hiding during deportations; his parents volunteering for the local forced labor camp; his mother bribing a guard for him to enter (they did not want children); hiding in the barrack until his mother bribed an official to obtain a number for him; slave labor in a poultry processing plant; evacuation with his mother; their escape from a death march; wandering from farm to farm, working for the farmers, then keeping house for a paralyzed woman and her family; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Łódź; his father joining them; living in the Landsberg displaced persons camp; attending school for the first time; living in Buchloe, then Munich; and emigration to the United States in 1951, with assistance from the Joint. Mr. O. attributes his survival to speaking perfect Polish, not “looking Jewish”; the gold coins; and his mother's resourcefulness. He shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    O., Bernard, 1937-
    Published
    New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2014
    Interview Date
    July 21, 2014.
    Locale
    Poland
    Piotrków Trybunalski
    Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
    Łódź (Poland)
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Buchloe (Germany)
    Munich (Germany)
    Cite As
    Bernard O. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4467). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
    Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
    Notes
    A copy of an additional photograph is available in the respository.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    3 copies: DVCam Master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (3 hr., 24 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    False papers.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12297721
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 12:03:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt12297721

    Additional Resources

    Librarian View

    Download & Licensing

    • Terms of Use
    • This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.

    In-Person Research

    Request Access from Yale University Libraries

    Contact Us