- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Thomas H., who was born in Busʹk, Poland in 1929. He recalls a large, extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; forced labor recruitment by the Judenrat; hiding during a round-up in fall 1942; building hiding places; his father and brother being caught during a round-up in May 1943; escaping with his mother and aunt; hiding in a village, the forest, and with a Polish woman; learning from others hiding there that his father and brother had been killed; a police raid (others in hiding were caught); the Polish woman taking them to a relative in Angeluvka; living in the forest; meeting two uncles; receiving food from a Jew and non-Jews; helping his uncle when Germans shot him; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Busʹk; moving to Lʹviv, Przemyśl, and Kraków; leaving his mother to join a Gordonyah kibbutz; moving to Munich with the kibbutz; joining his mother and relatives in Vienna; and emigrating to the United States in 1948. Mr. H. discusses psychological problems; not sharing his past, even with his children, until recently; connection with the Jewish community despite his lack of belief; and the pain of his father's and brothers' deaths. He shows photographs and documents.
- Author/Creator
- H., Thomas, 1929-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage
- Interview Date
- February 5, 1993.
- Locale
- Ukraine
Busʹk
Poland
Busʹk (Ukraine)
Angeluvka (Ukraine)
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Przemyśl (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Munich (Germany)
Vienna (Austria)
- Cite As
- Thomas H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2522). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rappaport, Naomi, interviewer.
- Notes
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An unpublished manuscript is available in the repository.
