- Summary
- Videotape testimony of William W., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1920, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; working as a tutor from age fourteen to help support his family; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion; ghettoization for three weeks at a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his mother, father, and one sister being selected for killing; transfer three weeks later to Jaworzno; slave labor in a coal mine; civilian workers leaving him food and cigarettes; public executions of escapees; others praying on Yom Kippur (he had lost his belief in God); hospitalization; surgery on his leg with no anesthesia; remaining behind when the camp was evacuated in January 1945; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization for eight weeks; transfer to Kraków; returning to his family home which had been destroyed; looking for his sisters every day at the railroad station; their return a month later; attempting to emigrate in the 1960s; obtaining an exit visa to visit his brother in London; traveling with his wife and two children from Prague to Vienna, then Israel; and joining his brother in London in 1968. Mr. W. notes regaining his religious faith in 1956.
- Author/Creator
- W., William, 1920-
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- February 10, 1993.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Uz︠h︡horod
Czechoslovakia
Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
Kraków (Poland)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Vienna (Austria)
Israel
- Cite As
- William W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2430). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Douek, Gillian Green, interviewer.
