Henry E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1250) interviewed by Anne Kaplan and Bernard Weinstein,
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) - Language
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English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP Restoration master; Betacam SP Restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Cite As
- Henry E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1250). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294948
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