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Joseph W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2852) interviewed by Claudine Drame and Berthe Burko-Falcman,

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1929, one of four children. He describes his orthodox family; living in his grandfather's home in Konstantynów until age five; attending cheder; German invasion; ghettoization; his father's death in 1940; smuggling food from outside the ghetto with his younger brother; hiding his youngest brother during round-ups; giving him up when all children were collected; his mother's death in 1943; several jobs in ghetto factories; friendship with Jankele Herszkowicz, a popular ghetto singer, who raised spirits with his songs; his brother's and sister's deportation; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; a prisoner suggesting he register his age older than fifteen; a friend choosing to go to the gas chambers with a younger brother so he would not die alone, a memory that haunts him to this day; forming a group of friends that assisted each other; hiding during selections; assignment guarding clandestine goods in Canada Kommando; transfer to Braunschweig; slave labor in a tobacco factory; trading smuggled tobacco for extra food that he shared with his group; a death march to Ravensbrück in April 1945; receiving Red Cross packages; transfer to Wöbbelin; cannibalism; liberation by United States troops in May 1945; emigration to Paris; emigration to Israel to fight in the 1948 War of Independence; and returning to Paris. Mr. W. discusses prisoner hierarchy and group relations in camps, and sings ghetto and concentration camp songs.
    Author/Creator
    W., Joseph, 1929-
    Published
    Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1994
    Interview Date
    March 17, 1994.
    Locale
    Poland
    Łódź
    Łódź (Poland)
    Konstantynów Łódzki (Poland)
    Israel
    Cite As
    Joseph W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2852). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Drame, Claudine, interviewer.
    Burko-Falcman, Berthe, interviewer.
    Notes
    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 (3 hr.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Hiding.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar effects.
    Postwar experiences.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288958
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:33:00
    This page:
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