Daniel A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1478) interviewed by Naomi Klein and Rona Finkelstein,
Videotape testimony of Daniel A., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1923, one of five brothers. He recalls German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish violence; forced labor; ghettoization in 1941; conversion to a labor camp after mass deportations; slave labor in a munitions factory; a death march in 1944; assisting his brother and future wife; train transport to Auschwitz; separation from his future wife; transfer with his brother to Vaihingen; slave labor in an underground factory; Italian POWs providing them with extra food; liberation by French troops in April 1945; recovery in a nearby town; living in Heidelberg, Bensheim, and Stuttgart displaced persons camps; assistance from the Joint; reunion with his future wife; marriage; and emigration to the United States via Bremerhaven in 1947. Mr. A. notes one of his brothers survived. He refers to the Radom Yizkor book.
- Published
- Wilmington, Delaware : Halina Wind Preston Holocaust Education Center, 1990
- Interview Date
- March 11, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
Germany
Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Bremerhaven (Germany) - Language
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English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Daniel A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1478). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4283929
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