Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Henry E., who was born in 1919 in Kraków, Poland, the youngest of three children. He recounts attending cheder; his father's death when he was nine; attending public school, then a Jewish high school; participating in a Zionist youth group; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Lublin; returning home; ghettoization; forced labor; a Pole hiding his mother during a selection; learning his brother and his children had been killed while in hiding; his sister's deportation with her children (he never saw them again); his mother's deportation; his deportation to Płaszów; public hangings; becoming emotionally numb; transfer to Dresden; slave labor in a factory; Allied bombings; a cousin and friend helping him on the death march to Theresienstadt in February 1945; liberation by Soviet troops in May; walking to Prague; hospitalization; reunion with his fiancée; marriage; traveling to Plzeň, then Munich; and emigration to the United States. Mr. E. notes the murder of almost all his extended family; sharing his experiences with his children; attributing his survival to luck; and a recent visit to Kraków.
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1988
- Interview Date
- October 19, 1988.
- Locale
- Poland
Kraków
Kraków (Poland)
Lublin (Poland)
Dresden (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Plzeň (Czech Republic)
Munich (Germany) - Cite As
- Henry E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1250). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP Restoration master; Betacam SP Restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 54 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Aid by non-Jews.
Survivor-child relations.
Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Poland. Kraków (Poland) Lublin (Poland) Dresden (Germany)--Bombardment, 1945--Personal narratives. Prague (Czech Republic) Plzeň (Czech Republic) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) E., Henry,--1919- Płaszów (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
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/4294948
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294948
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