- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Philip B., who was born in Izbica, Poland in 1929. This testimony includes and expands upon information from an earlier testimony [HVT-198]. Mr. B. recounts prewar antisemitism; his arrival in Sobibór; his brother's privileged position as a pharmacist, to which Mr. B. attributes his survival; forced labor sorting clothing of the Jews who were gassed; escape attempts and subsequent public executions; prisoners conspiring to kill a kapo who allied himself with the camp administration; revenge on the camp staff during the prisoner uprising in October 1943; help from non-Jewish villagers after escaping with his brother; hostility from some of the local population; detention in Zembrzyce after Soviet liberation in 1944; being robbed and beaten by members of Armia Krajowa in Lublin; traveling to Germany; living in a displaced persons camp near Berlin and then Heidenheim; and emigration to the United States in 1950. Mr. B. discusses his several visits to Sobibór; sharing his experiences with his children; giving talks to students; and frequent nightmares.
- Author/Creator
- B., Philip, 1925-2016.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1990
- Interview Date
- August 6, 1990.
- Locale
- Germany
Poland
Izbica Lubelska (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Zembrzyce (Poland)
- Cite As
- Philip B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2703). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Alpert, Michael, interviewer.
- Notes
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Related publication: Escape from Sobibor / Richard Rashke. -- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1995.
Related material: Philip B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-198), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Related material: Simcha B. Holocaust testimony [brother](HVT-3343), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
