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Jacques R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2985) interviewed by Claire Paulus and Pascal Majérus,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2985

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Jacques R., who was born in 1922. He recounts his family's move to La Louvière, Belgium, then Brussels and Anderlecht; beatings at school because he was Jewish; violin lessons; participation in leftist organizations; German invasion; fleeing to France; returning to Belgium; involvement in the Resistance; the Bund placing him in hiding with non-Jews in Villers-la-Ville, using false papers; running away from his hiding place; joining his mother in Uccle; arrest with his uncle and cousin; interrogations; transfer to Malines; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; quarantine; slave labor in Jaworzno; building a camp there; obtaining extra food and avoiding selections by playing violin; a public hanging of escapees; the death march to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Hersbruck, Flossenbürg, and Dachau; receiving a Red Cross package; and liberation by United States troops. Mr. R. vividly describes camp life and the breakdown of "normal" human behavior; incidents of prisoners both helping and harming each other; and horrible nightmares in the first years after liberation.
    Author/Creator
    R., Jacques, 1922-
    Published
    Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1993
    Interview Date
    June 2, 1993.
    Locale
    Belgium
    La Louvière (Belgium)
    Brussels (Belgium)
    Anderlecht (Belgium)
    Uccle (Belgium)
    Villers-la-Ville (Belgium)
    Cite As
    Jacques R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2985). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Paulus, Claire, interviewer.
    Majérus, Pascal, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in French.

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Copies
    2 copies: and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (4 hr., 32 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Resistance.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hiding.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar effects.
    False papers.
    Subjects
    Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Nightmares. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium. La Louvière (Belgium) Brussels (Belgium) Anderlecht (Belgium) Uccle (Belgium) Villers-la-Ville (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) R., Jacques,--1922- Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Jaworzno (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Malines (Concentration camp) Hersbruck (Concentration camp)

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289939
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:28:00
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