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Nathan P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1164) interviewed by Gitta Chaet,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1164

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Nathan P., who was born in Germany in 1917 and raised in Izbica Lubelska, Poland, one of eight children. He recalls one brother's emigration to Argentina; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; a brother's deportation to Sobibor; escaping from Izbica with a brother, sister, her husband, and their two children; joining an Armia Krajowa (AK) partisan group in the forests; assignments killing German sympathizers and mining railroad tracks; hearing the AK intended to kill the Jews and Russians in their group; leaving with assistance from a Polish professor after the Russians had already been killed; living in bunkers in the forest with the professor's assistance; moving often to avoid detection; liberation in July 1944; living in Zamość; encountering Polish antisemitism; living in Breslau, then Bergen-Belsen and Eschwege displaced persons camps; and emigration to the United States. Mr. P. discusses learning his parents were killed in a mass shooting the day after he left.
Author/Creator: P., Nathan, 1917-
Published: Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1988
Interview Date: November 28, 1988.
Locale: Poland
Izbica Lubelska (Poland)
Zamość (Poland)
Wrocław (Poland)
Cite As: Nathan P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1164). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Chaet, Gitta, interviewer.
Notes: There are some technical problems with the video.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (48 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Partisans.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mass killings.
Hiding.
Forests.
Bunkers.
Postwar experiences.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Eschwege (Germany : Refugee camp)
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Escapes. Families. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Refugee camps. Izbica Lubelska (Poland) Zamość (Poland) Wrocław (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) P., Nathan,--1917- Poland.--Polskie Siły Zbrojne.--Armia Krajowa.--Nowogródzki Okręg. DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.

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/4283409
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:46:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4283409

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