Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Paul R., who was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland in 1920. He recalls apprenticeship to a tailor at age eleven; the family's move to Belgium in 1936; working as a tailor; poverty and unemployment; local prominence as a table tennis player; German invasion; table tennis matches with German officers; deportation to Dannes in 1942, then to Malines and Auschwitz; sadistic beatings; working as a tailor and in the Canada Kommando; emotional numbness including indifference to others; trading valuables found in clothes for food; witnessing SS put Zyklon B in gas chambers; punishments after Mala Zimetbaum's escape; transfer to Warsaw in June 1943 with non-Polish and Russian prisoners to clear rubble; receiving food from a Polish civilian co-worker; the death march and train transport to Dachau; transfer to Waldlager V; casualties from frequent Allied bombings; liberation from an evacuation train by the Red Cross; recuperating in Mannheim; returning to Brussels; reunion with his sister; and marriage in 1954. Mr. R. discusses many details of camp life and relations between prisoner groups.
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1992
- Interview Date
- June 10, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Nowy Sącz (Poland)
Belgium
Brussels (Belgium)
Mannheim (Germany) - Cite As
- Paul R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1977). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 59 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
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. Table tennis. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Poland. Nowy Sącz (Poland) Belgium. Brussels (Belgium) Mannheim (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) R., Paul,--1920- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Malines (Concentration camp) Konzentrationslager Warschau. Dachau (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Mühldorf (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/4285419
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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