LEADER 06585cpd a2200805 a 4500001 4291612 005 20200403114930.0 008 980731s1995 ctu ger d 035 HVT-3405 035 4291612 035 |9FLW5815YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005111192 090 |bHVT-3405 100 1 W., Jan, |d1920- 245 10 Jan W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3405) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Andrés José Nader and Vera Stutz-Bischitzky, |fMay 15, 1995. 260 Potsdam, Germany : |bMoses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, |c1995. 300 1 videorecording (3 hr., 20 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Jan W., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1920. He recounts attending school; his parents' divorce; his father's remarriage; moving to Prague with his mother; attending gymnasium; volunteering for the army; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his grandmother bribing officials so he could join his father in Yugoslavia; futile attempts to obtain emigration visas in Zagreb; his father and stepmother committing suicide in front of him rather than living under German occupation; fleeing to Italian-occupied Ljubljana, then Trieste; assistance from a Slovak baker; traveling underneath a train to Genoa; arrest and imprisonment for nine months; transfer to a prisoner of war camp; forced labor felling trees and cleaning the Kommandant's office; friendship with a Polish prisoner of war; the chaplain providing money and military uniforms to them; their escape; riding a freight train to Florence; arrest, interrogation, and torture by the police; transfer to Palermo, then Ustica; escaping with his friend; a farmer providing shelter and food; liberation by British troops; joining the Czech army in Algeria, then training with the Royal Air Force; serving in the Czech army in Scotland; receiving British and Czech medals; returning to Prague from London after the war; taking revenge on a collaborator; incarceration in labor camp because of his service with the British; release five years later; marriage; the births of two children; divorce; visiting his aunt in the United States in 1960, when he met with her friend, Eleanor Roosevelt; remarriage; emigration to the United States; and frequent visits to Prague. Mr. W. discusses painful memories of parting from his mother and his father's suicide. 546 This testimony is in German. 540 This testimony cannot be used for commercial purposes. This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be cited for a book without prior approval of donor. 524 Jan W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3403). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |bBetacam SP dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 W., Jan, |d1920- 610 10 Great Britain. |bRoyal Air Force. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125861 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 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Jews |xMigrations. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070426 650 0 Jewish refugees. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85112308 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Suicide. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85129742 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, Italian. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113881 650 0 Prisoners of war |zItaly. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107245 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148460 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Czech. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, British. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xConscript labor |zCzechoslovakia. 650 0 Forced labor |zCzechoslovakia |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Revenge. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420 651 0 Germany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125931 651 0 Hamburg (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81086822 651 0 Prague (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055764 651 0 Zagreb (Croatia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79116205 651 0 Ljubljana (Slovenia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50052801 651 0 Trieste (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027119 651 0 Genoa (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83141238 651 0 Florence (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027120 651 0 Palermo (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043751 651 0 Ustica Island (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005517 651 0 Algeria. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79064760 651 0 Scotland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79123936 651 0 London (England) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79005665 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Italian occupation. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 700 1 Nader, Andrés José, |d1968- |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr00017990 700 1 Stutz-Bischitzky, Vera, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4670848 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3405) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/tx3513v797 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/