Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rudolf F., who was born in Krojanke, Germany in 1922. He recalls his family's move to Berlin in 1933; purchasing false papers; their emigration to Antwerp in 1937; attending a Jewish boarding school; German invasion; learning his family was in France; traveling to Perpignan; finding them in Montélimar; incarceration in a labor camp; escaping to join his family; his mother's deportation (he never saw her again); his brother being hidden in a convent; joining the Resistance in Lyon; living in Grenoble; obtaining a false identity from the mayor; arrest in Nice; incarceration in Drancy; deportation with his father to Auschwitz in 1943; assignment to Buna/Monowitz; assistance from a kapo and his cousin; Allied bombings; killing wounded Germans for revenge; separation from his father (he never saw him again); Jewish scholars teaching them; hospitalization; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; train transport to Buchenwald; Czechs throwing them food; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; cannibalism; liberation by British troops; transport to Paris; reunion with his sister in Belgium; emigration to the United States; and his Air Force career. Mr. F. discusses lack of self confidence, fears, and depression due to his experiences; camp life; and relations between prisoner groups.
- Published
- San Antonio, Tex. : Children of the Holocaust-Second Generation of San Antonio, 1987
- Interview Date
- November 15, 1987.
- Locale
- France
Krajenka (Poland)
Germany
Berlin (Germany)
Antwerp (Belgium)
Montélimar (France)
Perpignan (France)
Lyon (France)
Grenoble (France)
Nice (France)
Paris (France) - Cite As
- Rudolf F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1262). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub.; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 58 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Resistance.
Mutual aid.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jews--Migrations. Refugees, Jewish. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. Fathers and sons. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. Revenge. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Krajenka (Poland) Germany. Berlin (Germany) Antwerp (Belgium) Montélimar (France) Perpignan (France) Lyon (France) Grenoble (France) Nice (France) Paris (France) Oral histories (document genres) F., Rudolf1922- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Drancy (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/4283571
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4283571
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