- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Elias C., who was born in Golub-Dobrzyń, Poland (then Russia) in 1917, one of four children. He recounts attending cheder and public school; moving to Łódź in 1936; his father's death in 1938; military service beginning March 1939; assignment to artillery in Inowrocław; visiting his mother (he never saw her again); German invasion; surrender; non-Jewish, fellow POWs concealing he was Jewish from the Germans; imprisonment in Zduńska Wola; release; returning to Łódź; traveling to Kutno, looking for his sister; returning to Dobrzyń; forced evacuation; a futile attempt to cross the Soviet border; traveling to Płońsk, then another town; assistance from a Polish woman; hiding during German searches; volunteering for forced labor building roads; deportation to Działdowo; transfer three days later to the Piotrków ghetto; escaping with his wife to Warsaw, then the Mława ghetto; assistance from the Judenrat; a public hanging; hospitalization; his daughter's birth in 1942; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his wife and daughter (he never saw them again); slave labor in Buna/Monowitz; trading clothing with a civilian worker for extra food; a death march to Gleiwitz; transfer to Mauthausen, Oranienburg, Flossenbürg and Stuttgart; slave labor in an airplane factory; a death march to Ganacker, then another death march; escaping; assistance from local Germans; liberation by United States troops; assistance from UNRRA; remarriage in 1949; and emigration to the United States. He shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- C., Elias, 1917-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- September 10, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski
Mława
Russia
Golub-Dobrzyń (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Inowrocław (Poland)
Zduńska Wola (Poland)
Kutno (Poland)
Płońsk (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
- Cite As
- Elias C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-490). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Stadtler, Bea, interviewer.
