Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of William K., who was born in Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland), Poland in 1922, one of five children. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-635), Mr. K. recounts writing poetry as a boy; working at his mother's candy store; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1936; a Pole reneging on his agreement to hide their younger sister because she "looked too Jewish"; contemplating a group suicide; slave labor in the Madritsch factory in Płaszów; a severe beating in Mauthausen for refusing sexual advances by a kapo; observing cannibalism in Ebensee; hospitalization in Mysłowice en route home with his brothers after the war; and their moves to Kraków, Wrocław, then Munich. Mr. K. discusses the prisoner hierarchy in the camps; the importance to his survival of remaining with his brothers; and depression and nightmares resulting from his experiences.
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
- Interview Date
- June 12, 1989.
- Locale
- Poland
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie)
Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Mysłowice (Poland)
Wrocław (Poland)
Munich (Germany) - Cite As
- William K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1376). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Related material: William K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-635), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocuast 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 (1 hr., 51 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Antisemitism Prewar.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Antisemitism Postwar.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie) Suicide. Sexual harassment. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Brothers. Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Cannibalism. Nightmares. Poland. Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) Kraków (Poland) Mysłowice (Poland) Wrocław (Poland) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) K., William,--1922- Płaszów (Concentration camp) Mauthausen (Concentration camp) Ebensee (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/4295030
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4295030
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