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Erwin B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2875) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2875

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Erwin B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926, the youngest of seven children. He recounts his father's death in 1936; his mother's struggle to support the family; being accepted at the Korczak orphanage; German occupation; ghettoization; leaving the orphanage; watching Janusz Korczak's deportation with the orphans; smuggling food for his family; fleeing to the Wyszogród ghetto; joining his siblings in the Płońsk ghetto; working as a non-Jew for a Polish farmer; deportation with his mother and siblings to Auschwitz in late 1942; separation from his mother and sisters (he never saw them again); slave labor in Buna/Monowitz, then Birkenau; receiving medicine from a friend; transfer to Stutthof; assistance from a German officer and two French doctors; building airstrips in several labor camps; a death march from Dachau to Allach; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. B. recalls recuperating in Mühldorf; assistance from HIAS in Munich; reunion with his brothers in Belgium; emigration to Israel; military service in 1948; marriage; returning to Belgium; and emigrating to Canada in 1951. He discusses the Korczak orphanage; trips to Poland in 1983 and 1988, including an orphanage reunion; and sharing his experiences with his daughter.
    Author/Creator
    B., Erwin, 1926-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
    Interview Date
    January 18, 1994.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Wyszogród
    Płońsk
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Mühldorf am Inn (Germany)
    Belgium
    Munich (Germany)
    Israel
    Cite As
    Erwin B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2875). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Blinderman, Joni-Sue, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (1 hr., 53 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Child survivors.
    Mutual aid.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289068
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:25:00
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