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Jacob E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1963) interviewed by Bernice Blum and Steven Lang,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1963

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jacob E., who was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland in 1922. He recalls his large, extended family who were bakers; his rebellious adolescence; increased antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; ghettoization; a mass killing of the Jewish intelligentsia; smuggling food into the ghetto; forced labor in Tyszowce in 1941 (he lost his hearing there); his father risking his life to bring him home; factory work with his uncle; receiving help from some Germans; the ghetto's liquidation in 1942 (he never saw his parents and sisters again); arranging to work with his brother; their transfer to Bliżyn; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; their distant cousin arranging an easier job for them; transfer to Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, and Kaufering; and liberation from a death march by United States troops in Allach. Mr. E. recounts American soldiers preventing former prisoners from killing German guards; returning to Tomaszów to seek surviving relatives (there were none); returning to Munich; living with his brother; and marriage in 1946. He shows family photographs.
Author/Creator: E., Jacob, 1922-
Published: Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1992
Interview Date: March 5, 1992.
Locale: Poland
Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
Allach-Untermenzing (Munich, Germany)
Munich (Germany)
Cite As: Jacob E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1963). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Blum, Bernice, interviewer.
Lang, Steven, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 17 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Mass killings.
Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Tomaszów Mazowiecki. Forced labor. Brothers. Death marches. Revenge. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Poland. Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland) Allach-Untermenzing (Munich, Germany) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) E., Jacob,--1922- Blizyn (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Kaufering (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Oranienburg (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (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/4285406
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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