LEADER 05187cpd a2200733 a 4500001 4289101 005 20180604132509.0 008 980731s1994 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233606 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV00-A176 035 4289101 035 HVT-2889 035 |9FLW3284YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702155149 090 |bHVT-2889 100 1 S., Allen, |d1908- 245 10 Allen S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2889) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Lawrence L. Langer, |fNovember 18, 1994. 260 Brookline, Mass. : |bBrookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, |c1994. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 14 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Allen S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1908. He recalls fleeing to Russia during World War I; attending school in Russia and Poland; completing engineering school in Warsaw in 1935; his father's death; working in Czechoslovakia; returning home two days before the war; traveling with his mother and brother to Pruz︠h︡any, her hometown, in the Soviet zone; running a Jewish school under the Soviets; German invasion; his brother fleeing (he never saw him again); ghettoization; working outside the ghetto; obtaining food from his boss; marriage; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in early 1943; separation from his family (he never saw them again); assignment to a privileged position; a prisoner doctor expelling him from the infirmary immediately before its liquidation (he saved his life); higher morale after prisoners blew up a crematorium; transfer to several camps, including Meldorf; being shot during a train deportation; abandonment by the guards; liberation by the Red Cross; hospitalization; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; organizing a school in Munich; emigration to Israel; remarriage; and emigration to the United States. He discusses the antisemitism of Polish prisoners in Auschwitz and training himself not to think about the war years. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Allen S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2889). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 S., Allen, |d1908- 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 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 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 |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148463 650 0 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zBelarus |zPruz︠h︡any. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Łódź (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093570 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 651 0 Pruz︠h︡any (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82071925 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Munich (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059670 651 0 Israel. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79003285 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Wife |xDeath. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Marriage in Jewish ghettos. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Concentration camps |xUnderground movements. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Pruz︠h︡any ghetto. 691 4 Meldorf (Germany : Concentration camp) 691 4 Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp) 700 1 Langer, Lawrence L., |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81098032 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4668233 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2889) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/c24qj78074 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/ 927 oclc 928 AC04082002