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Ben L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1023) interviewed by Rosalie Bamberger and Gitta Chaet,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1023

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Ben L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. He recalls anti-Jewish violence; attending rabbinical school to please his mother; his father's death in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization in 1940; a work assignment outside the ghetto; trading valuables for food to Polish smugglers; his mother and younger brother being smuggled out (he never saw them again); not escaping in order to protect his sister; hiding in a bunker during the uprising; discovery; deportation to Treblinka; selection for transfer to Majdanek after a few days; transfer a few months later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; working outside the camp; trading goods of the murdered Jews for food (prisoners would not have survived without it); public hangings of escapees; planning an escape with three others; the first two being caught and killed; contemplating suicide; transfer to Mauthausen, then Ebensee; rapid deterioration since he could not obtain extra food; liberation by United States troops; and prisoners killing those who had cooperated with the Germans.
    Author/Creator
    L., Ben, 1922-
    Published
    Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1987
    Interview Date
    April 22, 1987.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Cite As
    Ben L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1023). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Bamberger, Rosalie, interviewer.
    Chaet, Gitta, interviewer.

    Physical Details

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

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4282875
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
    This page:
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