LEADER 03975spd a2200661 a 4500001 4286059 005 20180604132752.0 008 980616s1992 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233084 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV98-A169 035 4286059 035 HVT-2040 035 |9FLW0172YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702154600 090 |bHVT-2040 100 1 K., Harold, |d1920- 245 10 Harold K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2040) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Naomi Rappaport, |fMay 14, 1992. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bA Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, |c1992. 300 1 videorecording (2 hr., 31 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Harold K., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1920. He recalls his impoverished home; their orthodoxy; leaving school to begin working at age twelve; Polish antisemitism; German invasion; a public hanging of Jews; forced labor as a bricklayer in Katowice; transfer to a labor camp; arrest while visiting home; release and transfer to Annaberg, which he helped build; Allied bombardments; Yom Kippur services; his privileged status as a bricklayer; visiting his family in the Sosnowiec ghetto; transfer to Auschwitz in June 1944, then to Birkenau and Gleiwitz; a death march in December 1944; train transport to Oranienburg (about twenty percent of those who left Gleiwitz survived); transfer to another camp; digging tunnels for airplane factories; transfer to Dachau; liberation by United States troops; selling food and material provided by an American officer; living in Munich; returning briefly to Sosnowiec (neither his parents nor siblings survived); marriage to a survivor; and emigration in 1949 to the United States with assistance from HIAS. Mr. K. discusses the importance of luck to his survival; being treated well by Americans at liberation; painful memories of total humiliation; and sharing his experiences with his children and grandchildren. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding 524 Harold K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2040). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 K., Harold, |d1920- 610 20 HIAS (Agency) 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) 610 20 Oranienburg (Concentration camp) 610 20 Dachau (Concentration camp) 610 20 Annaberg (Concentration camp) 650 0 Holocaust survivors. 650 0 Video tapes. 650 0 Men. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. 650 0 Forced labor. 650 0 Jewish ghettos. 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zSosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xReligious life. 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Death marches. 651 0 Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) 651 0 Poland. 651 0 Katowice (Poland) 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 691 4 Gleiwitz (Poland : Concentration camp) 651 0 Munich (Germany) 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 691 4 Sosnowiec ghetto 700 1 Rappaport, Naomi, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4665107 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2040) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/sx6445hq46 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/