- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Louis D., who was born in Velyikyy Bychkiv, Russia (presently Ukraine) in approximately 1911, one of six brothers. He recounts his family's poverty; working in construction in Brno; military enlistment in 1929; discharge in 1933; his successful business; German invasion; obtaining papers as a non-Jew; deportation to Velyikyy Bychkiv; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Kiev; transfer home; deportation with his family to Auschwitz; transfer with two brothers to Fünfteichen; slave labor in a Krupp factory; extraction of his brother's gold crowns to obtain privileged work; a death march via Gross-Rosen to Dachau; sharing food and encouraging his brother; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Plzeň; reunion with another brother; a brief visit to Velyikyy Bychkiv; serving in the Czech military in Prague; discharge after nine months; recovering his business; marriage in 1946; arrest by Soviets as a capitalist in 1949; imprisonment in Litoměřice for nine months; escaping to Vienna; his wife and children joining him; living in a displaced persons camp; and emigration via Hamburg to Montréal in 1950, then to the United States in 1953. Mr. D. discusses nightmares resulting from his experiences; losing all his teeth when beaten in camp; no assistance when he arrived in the U.S.; and financial struggles, despite his present success.
- Author/Creator
- D., Louis, 1911?-
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- September 14, 1984.
- Locale
- Hungary
Soviet Union
Russia
Velykyĭ Bychkiv (Ukraine)
Brno (Czech Republic)
Kiev (Ukraine)
Vienna (Austria)
Plzeň (Czech Republic)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Litoměřice (Czech Republic)
Hamburg (Germany)
Montréal (Québec)
- Cite As
- Louis D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-492). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
