Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Israel P., who was born in Przysucha, Poland in 1917, the youngest of ten children. He recalls his parents' deaths when he was a child; attending a yeshiva in Lublin; moving to Warsaw; membership in the Bund; joining his brothers in Paris in 1936; socialist activities; enlisting in the military in 1939; serving in a Polish unit; demobilization in July 1940; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish measures; losing his job; arrest in May 1941; incarceration in Pithiviers; organized Sabbath observance and cultural activities; transfer to Beaune-la-Rolande; deportation with three of his brothers to Auschwitz in June 1942; separation from his brothers; forced labor building gas chambers; the deaths of his brothers; vicious kapos; starvation; being beaten for refusing to beat other prisoners; receiving protection and food from a German; revived hope upon receiving news of German defeats and the Warsaw ghetto uprising; transfer to Sachsenhausen in November 1944; a death march; and liberation in May 1945 by United States and Soviet troops.
- Published
- Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1990
- Interview Date
- November 16, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Przysucha (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Paris (France) - Cite As
- Israel P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1640). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Spanish.
Physical Details
- Language
- Spanish
- Copies
- 2 copies: and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 11 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, French. Forced labor. Brothers. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Death marches. Poland. Przysucha (Poland) Lublin (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Paris (France) Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Oral histories (document genres) P., Israel,--1917- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland. Beaune-la-Rolande (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) Pithiviers (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/4283999
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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