LEADER 05546cpd a2200697 a 4500001 4291795 005 20180604132612.0 008 980731s1995 ctu fre d 035 HVT-3466 035 |9FLW5998YL 035 4291795 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005104280 090 |bHVT-3466 100 1 R., Walter, |d1924- 245 10 Walter R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3466) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Elisabeth Inchusta and Massimo Ianetta, |fFebruary 13, 1995. 260 Brussels, Belgium : |bFondation Auschwitz, |c1995. 300 1 videorecording (3 hr., 21 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Walter R., a non-Jew, who was born in Hamburg, Germany to Belgian parents in 1924. He recounts their move to Antwerp when he was three; his father's death; his mother's remarriage; housing German refugees; German invasion; mobilization; biking to Bordeaux with other conscripts; returning home; leaving for England with his friend Paul; traveling to Perpignan via Nantes, Bordeaux, and Narbonne; arrest by Germans while attempting to illegally cross the Spanish border; incarceration in Perpignan; transfer to Compiègne; slave labor in Paris uncovering unexploded bombs; transfer to Neuengamme as a political prisoner; separation from Paul upon transfer to Watenstedt; slave labor in a munitions factory; Paul's arrival; receiving Red Cross packages; hospitalization; remaining as a secretary and interpreter; public executions; working as the kommandant's secretary and interpreter; sharing extra food with Paul; transfer to Ravensbrück; receiving Red Cross packages; a death march two weeks later; assuming Paul was killed when he “disappeared”; liberation by United States troops; returning to Belgium; and reunion with his family and Paul, who had survived. Mr. R. discusses the prisoner hierarchy and national/ethnic divisions; the importance to his survival of being young and not losing hope; sharing some of his experiences with his children; nightmares of the camps, particularly since retirement; visiting Neuengamme; and membership in a survivor organization. He shows a spoon and notebook from the camps, and a Soviet newspaper from VE Day. 546 This testimony is in French. 524 Walter R. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3466). 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 R., Walter, |d1924- 610 20 Compiègne (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99021201 610 20 Neuengamme (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97079767 610 20 Watenstedt (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015005773 610 20 Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068008 610 20 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Belgian. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113917 650 0 Concentration camp inmates. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96000020 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Friendship. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051992 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Nightmares. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 651 0 Germany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80125931 651 0 Hamburg (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81086822 651 0 Antwerp (Belgium) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018141 651 0 Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091189 651 0 Nantes (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50045845 651 0 Narbonne (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81081145 651 0 Perpignan (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80117451 651 0 Paris (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79058874 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Hospitals in concentration camps. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Survivor-child relations. 693 24 Perpignan (Prison) 700 1 Inchusta, Elisabeth, |einterviewer. 700 1 Ianetta, Massimo, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4671038 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3466) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/s17sn01c4j 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/