LEADER 06256cpd a2200745 a 4500001 4291762 005 20180604132512.0 008 980731s1995 ctu fre d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702234180 035 HVT-3458 035 |9FLW5965YL 035 4291762 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702156638 090 |bHVT-3458 100 1 G., Félix, |d1926- 245 10 Félix G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3458) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Yannis Thanassekos and Michel Rosenfeldt, |fMarch 20, 1995 and March 31, 1995. 260 Brussels, Belgium : |bFondation Auschwitz, |c1995. 300 2 videorecordings (6 hr. and 2 hr., 10 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Félix G., who was born in Forest, Belgium to Polish immigrants in 1926, one of three sons. He recalls growing up in Brussels; his family's focus on education; doing well in school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Abbeville; returning when overtaken by German troops; anti-Jewish restrictions including expulsion from school and wearing the star; arrest in September 1942; incarceration in Malines; love at first sight for another prisoner (Frieda); deportation to Sakrau; separation from Frieda (he never saw her again); transfer to Königshütte; slave labor building barracks, then in a factory; his friend's death; transfer to the hospital at Laurahütte when he was ill; assistance from a Jewish doctor who had known his older brother; return to Königshütte when he recovered, and a month later to Blechhammer; public hanging of a friend; a Belgian forced laborer recognizing him and bringing him a food package from a former teacher; a death march to Gross-Rosen; a futile escape attempt; permanent injuries resulting from a beating when he was caught; transfer to Buchenwald; being placed on a pile of corpses; liberation by United States troops; recovering for a month; repatriation; his older brother's return from the camps and suicide; reunion with his younger brother who had been hidden as a non-Jew; learning his parents had been deported and killed; placement in tuberculosis sanitaria in Davos and Leysin for three years; and completing law school in 1953. Mr. G. discusses dehumanization and losing his ability to cry and to feel in camps; lack of solidarity among prisoners; strained relations between west and east European Jews; the failures of Belgium's Jewish leadership; his book about Frieda; not marrying due to never feeling as strongly about another woman; and concluding there is no answer to his quest to understand how humans could treat others with such sadism and cruelty. 546 This testimony is in French. 500 Related publication: A Frieda : témoignage / Félix Gutmacher. -- Bruxelles : F. Gutmacher, c1994. 524 Félix G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3458). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 G., Félix, |d1926- 610 20 Malines (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97043298 610 20 Laurahütte (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00095573 610 20 Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99006567 610 20 Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028022 610 20 Buchenwald (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997 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 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Friendship. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051992 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 651 0 Belgium. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126041 651 0 Forest (Brabant, Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00087886 651 0 Brussels (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830 651 0 Abbeville (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81150065 651 0 Geneva (Switzerland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018331 651 0 Davos (Switzerland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80083777 651 0 Leysin (Switzerland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91097743 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Hospitals in concentration camps. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Postwar effects. 691 4 Sakrau (Poland : Concentration camp) 691 4 Königshütte (Poland : Concentration camp) 700 1 Thanassekos, Yannis, |einterviewer. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80110927 700 1 Rosenfeldt, Michel, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4671002 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3458) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/5t3fx73z3d 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/