LEADER 05016cpd a2200649 a 4500001 4291784 005 20180530112752.0 008 980731s1995 ctu fre d 035 HVT-3462 035 4291784 035 |9FLW5987YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005104279 090 |bHVT-3462 100 1 K., Willy, |d1920- 245 10 Willy K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3462) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Hessel Daalder and Elisabeth Inchusta, |fJanuary 18, 1995. 260 Brussels, Belgium : |bFondation Auschwitz, |c1995. 300 1 videorecording (4 hr., 57 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Willy K., who was born in Mont-sur-Marchienne, Belgium in 1920, a non-Jew. Mr. K. recalls participating in a Protestant youth group; leaving school at age fifteen; working odd jobs; learning to be a baker from his father; military enlistment in September 1938; assignments in Florennes, Konigslo, Rossignol, and Bruges; a futile attempt to leave with British troops after German invasion; volunteering for the bakery when he was incarcerated; transfer to a prison in Bruges; escape; traveling to Brussels, then his home; joining an organization of war veterans; contacting a partisan group; blowing up bridges, railroads, and other strategic sites; deportation for forced labor to Stolberg in 1942; a serious burn incurred while working; hospitalization; transfer to Charleroi; transfer to several prisons, ending at Mons; deportation to Watten; always thinking of escaping; twelve hour shifts at harsh labor; starvation rations; escaping during an Allied bombing; walking to Watou; a local civilian giving him food and money; traveling by train to Brussels, then Charleroi; hiding for two months; learning the Germans counted him among the dead; continuing resistance missions including destroying rail and communications lines; living on farms in Gozée and Nalinnes; returning their weapons when the war ended; continuing his military career; marriage; moving to Congo for several years; and returning to Brussels. Mr. K. notes he and his father helped transport fleeing Jews; sharing parts of his story with his children; and nightmares about World War II, but not Congo. 546 This testimony is in French. 524 Willy K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3462). 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 K., Willy, |d1920- 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, Belgian. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113917 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Belgian. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements, Belgian. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Nightmares. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914 651 0 Belgium. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126041 651 0 Mont-sur-Marchienne (Belgium) 651 0 Florennes (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85809352 651 0 Koningslo (Belgium) 651 0 Rossignol (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002045124 651 0 Bruges (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018880 651 0 Charleroi (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80038087 651 0 Stolberg am Harz (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82050652 651 0 Watou (Belgium) 651 0 Brussels (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79013830 651 0 Nalinnes (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004018636 651 0 Gozée (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004018635 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Watten (France : Concentration Camp) 693 24 Mons (Prison) 700 1 Inchusta, Elisabeth, |einterviewer. 700 1 Daalder, Hessel, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4671027 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3462) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/kd1qf8jq8f 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/