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Willi E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2770) interviewed by Gabrielle Tyrnauer,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2770

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Willi E., a Romani, who was born in East Prussia, Germany in 1927. He remembers traveling and performing prior to Hitler's ascent to power; racial laws requiring them to live in barracks in 1937-1938; persecution of Jews; deportation of young Romani men; his deportation to a prison camp in Białystok; witnessing a mass killing of Jews in Brzesc Litewski (Brest); deportation to Auschwitz in 1943 (his mother and two siblings were gassed); slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops in 1945; searching for relatives; marriage; and postwar hardships and shortages. He notes he survived the camps "because of Jesus."
Author/Creator: E., Willi, 1927-
Published: Austria : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
Interview Date: July 21, 1991.
Locale: Germany
Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
Brest (Belarus)
Cite As: Willi E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2770). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Tyrnauer, Gabrielle, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in German.

Physical Details

Language: German
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (11 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Mass killings.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Romani. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Forced labor. Romanies--Nazi persecution--Germany. Romanies--Germany--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons , Polish. Concentration camp inmates. Faith. Germany. Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) Brest (Belarus) Oral histories (document genres) E., Willi,--1927- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (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/4288762
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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