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a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Naftali L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3241)
h| [videorecording],
f| May 14, 1992.
a| Tel Aviv, Israel :
b| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
c| 1992.
a| 1 videorecording (approximately 8 hr.) :
b| col.
a| 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.
a| This testimony is in Hebrew.
a| This testimony can only be viewed by Yale students and faculty at Yale University.
a| The testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.
a| Naftali L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3241). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| L., Naftali ,
d| 1926-
a| Laʼu, Y. M.
q| (Yiśraʼel Meʼir)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91002676
a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360
a| Częstochowa (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003103701
a| Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997
a| Dora (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99830116
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Children.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359
a| Jewish children in the Holocaust.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877
a| Bar mitzvah.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011761
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Poland
z| Piotrków Trybunalski.
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Escapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783
a| Brothers.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017223
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
a| Kraków (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125145
a| Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80015362
a| Normandy (France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80146266
a| Palestine
x| Emigration and immigration.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Difi in Bugaj (Poland : Concentration camp)
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3241)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/3r0pr7mt9c
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/