a| (OCoLC)ocn702234180

a| HVT-3458

9| FLW5965YL

a| 4291762

a| CtY b| eng c| CtY e| appm

a| (OCoLC)702156638

b| HVT-3458

a| G., Félix, d| 1926-

a| Félix G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3458) h| [videorecording] / c| interviewed by Yannis Thanassekos and Michel Rosenfeldt, f| March 20, 1995 and March 31, 1995.

a| Brussels, Belgium : b| Fondation Auschwitz, c| 1995.

a| 2 videorecordings (6 hr. and 2 hr., 10 min.) : b| col.

a| 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.

a| This testimony is in French.

a| Related publication: A Frieda : témoignage / Félix Gutmacher. -- Bruxelles : F. Gutmacher, c1994.

a| Félix G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3458). 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| G., Félix, d| 1926-

a| Malines (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97043298

a| Laurahütte (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00095573

a| Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr99006567

a| Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97028022

a| Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997

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| World War, 1939-1945 x| Atrocities. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285

a| Friendship. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051992

a| Forced labor. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453

a| Death marches. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384

a| Concentration camps x| Psychological aspects. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590

a| Concentration camps x| Sociological aspects.

a| Belgium. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126041

a| Forest (Brabant, Belgium) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00087886

a| Brussels (Belgium) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830

a| Abbeville (France) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81150065

a| Geneva (Switzerland) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018331

a| Davos (Switzerland) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80083777

a| Leysin (Switzerland) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91097743

a| Oral histories (document genres) 2| aat 0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595

a| Child survivors.

a| Mutual aid.

a| Hospitals in concentration camps.

a| Aid by non-Jews.

a| Postwar experiences.

a| Postwar effects.

a| Sakrau (Poland : Concentration camp)

a| Königshütte (Poland : Concentration camp)

a| Thanassekos, Yannis, e| interviewer. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80110927

a| Rosenfeldt, Michel, e| interviewer.

a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, b| Yale University Library, e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.

b| 4671002

y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3458) u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/5t3fx73z3d

y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/