Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Adolphe F., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recounts a sheltered childhood; his parents' unionism and communism; he and his parents hiding with a French family in July 1942; fleeing with an uncle to Vierzon, using false papers; their denouncement; imprisonment in Orléans; transfer to Pithiviers, Drancy, and then back to Pithiviers; deportation as hostages to Cosel, then a labor camp; brief escapes to obtain food; transfer to Blechhammer in December 1942; beatings, slave labor, appels, and public hangings; sharing food received from his parents; assistance from a German official; working with British POWs; a Czech worker giving him extra food; helping each other during the death march to Gross-Rosen in January 1945; transfer to Buchenwald, then Langenstein; hiding to avoid work; escaping the evacuation with a few friends; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Magdeburg; repatriation to Paris; reunion with his parents; and a difficult physical and emotional recovery. Mr. F. eloquently discusses various prisoner roles and responses in camps; the solidarity of the French prisoners and friendships which enabled him to survive and sustained him after the war; joining an organization of Blechhammer survivors in 1965; and relations with his children.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1993
- Interview Date
- March 8, 1993.
- Locale
- Germany
Poland
France
Paris (France)
Vierzon (France)
Orléans (France)
Magdeburg (Germany) - Cite As
- Adolphe F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2648). 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 with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 25 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Hiding.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Death marches.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French. Forced labor. Hostages--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Escapes. Friendship. Prisoners of war--Poland. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. France. Paris (France) Vierzon (France) Orléans (France) Magdeburg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) F., Adolphe,--1926- Pithiviers (Concentration camp) Drancy (Concentration camp) Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (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/4288483
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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