- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Naftali L., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926. He recalls moving to Piotrków when his father became its rabbi in 1935; his bar mitzvah in Kraków in 1939; German invasion in September; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father having to collect money to meet German demands; hiding the synagogue's Torahs; an influx of Jews from the surrounding area; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz in 1941; slave labor; Polish non-Jews protecting him; public hangings; contacting his family; his arranged escape with a Polish baker who made deliveries to Auschwitz; hiding in his parents' house; slave labor in Difi in Bugaj; his mother hiding with his younger siblings during round-ups; his father volunteering for deportation to Treblinka to be with his congregation; his mother running a soup kitchen; deportation with his five-year-old brother to Częstochowa; slave labor in a factory; others helping him care for his brother; transport to Buchenwald in January 1944; bribing an official to place his brother in a children's barrack; slave labor in a quarry; visiting his brother; transfer to Dora; sneaking into a transport to Buchenwald; observing Hungarian Jews praying; separation from his brother during the evacuation; escaping from the train; returning to Buchenwald; prisoners taking over; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; transfer with his brother to Normandy; and their illegal emigration to Palestine. Mr. L. notes his brother, Israel Lau, became a Chief Rabbi in Israel.
- Author/Creator
- L., Naftali, 1926-
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
- Interview Date
- May 14, 1992.
- Locale
- Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski
Kraków (Poland)
Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Normandy (France)
Palestine
- Cite As
- Naftali L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3241). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
