- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Nathan P., who was born in Toruń, Poland in 1922. He describes attending a secular school; not understanding he was Jewish despite his parents' Sabbath observance; living with his grandparents in a small village for eight months; attending Jewish school there; he and his mother and siblings, joining his father in Paris in 1930; his bar mitzvah; attending agricultural school in Contamine-sur-Arve; graduation in 1939; working in Bourges; German invasion; brief detention at Drancy; visiting his brother who was incarcerated in Beaune-la-Rolande; obtaining his release; round-up of his parents and siblings to the Vélodrome d'hiver; his arrest in July 1942; incarceration in Drancy; arrival of unaccompanied children including his younger siblings; learning from his younger brother his parents had been deported; deportation of his siblings; his deportation to Ottmuth in September; transfer to Ratibor; slave labor as a mason; transfer to Peiskretscham, Borsig-Werke, then Blechhammer; Allied bombings; public hangings; trading with English prisoners of wars and German civilian workers; hospitalization for a broken arm; a fellow prisoner assisting him feign illness so he could remain in the hospital; a death march in January 1945 to Gross-Rosen; train transport to Buchenwald; escape; hiding; and liberation. Mr. P. discusses his attitude, camp life, and fellow-prisoners, including Robert Clary, and documenting his experiences in a book. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- P., Nathan, 1922-
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1994
- Interview Date
- March 8, 1994.
- Locale
- Poland
Toruń (Poland)
Paris (France)
Contamine-sur-Arve (France)
Bourges (France)
- Cite As
- Nathan P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2848). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Borlant, Henri, interviewer.
Drame, Claudine, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Related publication: Mémoires barbelées, et apres... / Nathan Prochownik. -- Paris : L'Harmattan, c1995.
