LEADER 05857cpd a2200745 a 4500001 4288940 005 20180604132834.0 008 980731s1994 ctu fre d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233570 035 HVT-2843 035 |9FLW3120YL 035 4288940 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702155117 090 |bHVT-2843 100 1 F., Mendel, |d1924- 245 10 Mendel F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2843) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Hélène Trigano and Annette Wieviorka, |fMarch 17, 1994. 260 Paris, France : |bTémoignages pour mémoire, |c1994. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 58 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Mendel F., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1924, the youngest of four children. Mr. F. describes active participation in S.K.I.F., the youth organization of the Bund; one brother's death from illness in 1936; German invasion in 1939; ghettoization; starvation, poor sanitation, and high death rates; he and other youths protesting the lack of food in March 1941; joining a group of friends giving their flour rations to a sick friend; assisting with organizing schools and youth activities; his other brother being shot in 1942; hiding with his parents, sister, and relatives during round-ups; joining their father when he was caught by Hans Biebow in summer 1944; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his father joining his mother when she was selected for death; remaining with his uncle; losing his will to live; his uncle insisting he eat; saving a friend from selection with assistance from a non-Jewish Polish prisoner; transfer to Vechelde about six weeks later; slave labor in a tank factory; death marches to several camps, including Dora and Ravensbrück; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation from Ludwigslust by United States troops; returning to Łódź; traveling to Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to find his sister; discovering it was a cousin with the same name; living in Brussels; learning his sister was alive in Sweden; and settling in Paris. Mr. F. discusses details of life in the Łódź ghetto and the impossibility of describing arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau. 546 This testimony is in French. 524 Mendel F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2843). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 F., Mendel, |d1924- 600 10 Biebow, Hans, |d1902-1947. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003110468 610 20 Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073279 610 20 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068008 610 20 Vechelde (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028434 610 20 Dora (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99830116 610 20 Ludwigslust (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003043554 610 20 DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012131298 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zŁódź. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xFamily relationships. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Łódź (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093570 651 0 Brussels (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Łódź ghetto. 693 24 Bund. 700 1 Trigano, Hélène, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002025235 700 1 Wieviorka, Annette, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79069086 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4668058 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2843) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/sn00z7182f 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/