LEADER 05152cpd a2200697 a 4500001 4285430 005 20180604132335.0 008 991014s1992 ctu fre d 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV99-A260 035 4285430 035 HVT-1981 035 |9FLV9533YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1007226291 090 |bHVT-1981 100 1 V., Charles, |d1913- 245 10 Charles V. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1981) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Yannis Thanassekos and Rina Margos and Jean-Michel Chaumont, |fMay 13, 1992. 260 Brussels, Belgium : |bFondation Auschwitz, |c1992. 300 1 videorecording (3 hr.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Charles V., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1913. He recalls feeling Belgian rather than Jewish; military service beginning in 1937; German invasion; capture; one year imprisonment as a Belgian POW; returning home; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; forced closing of the family business; hiding with his parents and sister; denunciation as a Jew in June 1944; imprisonment; transfer to Malines, then Auschwitz (his family remained hidden); slave labor; fierce struggles for food; his sense of complete isolation; willing himself to forget his past and family; a Belgian nurse saving his life; public executions; learning to play french horn in order to be in the orchestra for extra food and protection; playing eighteen hours daily; Romanies in the orchestra being killed when the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager) was liquidated; the death march to Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and Ravensburg beginning in January 1945; disappearance of guards; assistance from French POWs; return to Brussels; and reunion with his family. Mr. V. discusses camp life, including intergroup relations; relief he was alone so he did not have to see relatives suffer; the pervasive presence of corpses in Gross-Rosen; refusal to eat mutton (it reminds him of the odor of Auschwitz); and many relatives killed during the Holocaust. 546 This testimony is in French. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Charles V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1981). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 V., Charles, |d1913- 610 20 Buchenwald (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997 610 20 Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028022 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Malines (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97043298 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Belgian. 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Concentration camps |vSongs and music. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Identification (Religion) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064143 650 0 Prisoners of war. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106971 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148460 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons,Belgian. 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 651 0 Belgium. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126041 651 0 Brussels (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Ravensburg (Germany : Concentration camp) 693 24 Auschwitz Orchestra. 693 24 Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager) 700 1 Thanassekos, Yannis, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80110927 700 1 Margos, Rina, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies |bYale University Library |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4664443 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1981) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/rn3028pr36 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/