Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1930. He recounts his father's career as a concert violinist; attending public school; piano lessons; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor in factories; relatives dying of starvation and disease; deportation with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his mother and younger brother (he never saw them again); remaining with his father; their transfer to Gleiwitz; slave labor digging ditches; his father's death in November; a death march to Blechhammer; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Poland seeking relatives; staying in Częstochowa, then Łódź; reunion with an uncle; illegally returning to Germany; reunion with an uncle in Cham (he was in a jazz band which played for United States troops); emigrating to the United States with an UNRRA orphans' group; studying music at Oberlin; military draft; playing in an Air Force band; and marriage. Mr. B. discusses the pain and overwhelming sensation of starvation; sharing his experience with his children; and his bar mitzvah during the survivor gathering in Israel in 1981.
- Published
- Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984
- Interview Date
- November 11, 1984.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
United States
Łódź (Poland)
Częstochowa (Poland)
Cham (Germany) - Cite As
- Jack B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-494). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 8 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Łódź. Forced labor. Fathers and sons. Death marches. Orphanages--United States. Bar mitzvah. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Częstochowa (Poland) Cham (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) B., Jack,--1930- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp) United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4293879
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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