- 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.
