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Isaac W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2958) interviewed by Joni-Sue Blinderman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2958

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Isaac W., who was born in Bielsko-Biała, Poland in 1911, one of six children. He recounts attending a German school; manufacturing woolens; German invasion; fleeing to Lublin; traveling to Kraków, posing as a non-Jewish Pole; living in a suburb to avoid ghettoization; brief imprisonment in Montelupich in 1942; forced relocation into the Kraków ghetto; transfer with his family to Płaszów in March 1943; working at a factory; separation from his parents during the last selection in March 1944; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk; observing Yom Kippur; slave labor; transfer to Ebensee; liberation by United States troops; returning to Bielsko; reclaiming family assets; living in Kraków, then Bindermichl displaced persons camp; reunion with an uncle; operating a store in Heidelberg; emigrating to the United States in 1949; and traveling to Israel in 1959 to find a wife. Mr. W. notes he is the sole survivor of his immediate family.
Author/Creator: W., Isaac, 1911-
Published: New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
Interview Date: April 25, 1994.
Locale: Poland
Kraków
Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Heidelberg (Germany)
Cite As: Isaac W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2958). 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., 35 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Forced labor. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Refugee camps. Poland. Bielsko-Biała (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Heidelberg (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) W., Isaac,--1911- Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Płaszów (Concentration camp) Melk (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Montelupich (Prison)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289902
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:26:00
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