- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in Augustów, Poland in 1915, the youngest of eight children. He recounts his oldest brother's emigration to the United States in 1923; draft into the Polish military in 1937; German and Soviet invasion in 1939; deportation as a POW by the Soviets from Baranovichy; release with a group born in Latvia; escaping en route to Vilnius; returning home; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; deportation to Bogusze, then Auschwitz; separation from his parents and sisters (he never saw them again); selection for work with three brothers; a death march to Gross-Rosen in January 1945; his brothers' deaths; transfer to Buchenwald; slave labor clearing rubble in Weimar; receiving food from a restaurateur; slave labor in a munitions factory in Waldenburg; liberation from a death march by United States troops; traveling to Dresden, Kraków, Warsaw, Białystok, and Budapest; living in a Betar camp in Cremona; marriage in 1947; his daughter's birth in 1949; emigration to the United States to join his brother; and his son's birth in 1954. Mr. L. discusses his lost childhood and sharing his experiences with his grandchildren.
- Author/Creator
- L., Charles, 1915-
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1989
- Interview Date
- February 14, 1989.
- Locale
- Poland
Soviet Union
Augustów
Augustów (Województwo Podlaskie, Poland)
Baranavichy (Belarus)
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Dresden (Germany)
Kraków (Poland)
Warsaw (Poland)
Białystok (Poland)
Budapest (Hungary)
Cremona (Italy)
- Cite As
- Charles L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1458). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Weinstein, Bernard, interviewer.
Wellworm, Robert, interviewer.
