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Israel W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1160)

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1160

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Israel W., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1922 to a family of five children. He recalls their orthodoxy; his father working as a kosher butcher; antisemitic harassment; his parents' deaths in the 1930s; working as a furrier in Sosnowiec, Łódź, then Zawiercie; German invasion in 1939; reporting for forced labor in 1940; slave labor in Auenrode, Markstädt, Janislawice (Johannisdorf), Gross Masselwitz (he was separated from his brother there and never saw him again), Breslau-Neukirch, and Fünfteichen/Markstädt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; train transfer to Buchenwald and Bisingen; liberation from a train; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; and returning home. Mr. W. discusses details of camp life; severe beatings; assistance from other prisoners; inter-group relations in the camps; and learning the fate of his siblings from survivors who had been with them (he is the sole survivor of his family).
Author/Creator: W., Israel, 1922-
Published: Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1988
Interview Date: January 14, 1988.
Locale: Zawiercie (Poland)
Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Cite As: Israel W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1160). 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., 50 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Brothers. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Death marches. Refugee camps. Zawiercie (Poland) Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) Łódź (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) W., Israel,--1922- Markstädt (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Bisingen (Concentration camp) Gross Masselwitz (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/4283397
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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