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Marian F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1781) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Lilian Sicular,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1781

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Marian F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls graduating from gymnasium; studying piano at the conservatory; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother, sister, and her husband to Soviet-occupied Lʹviv; graduating from conservatory; German invasion in June 1941; returning to his family in the Warsaw ghetto; playing in a ghetto orchestra; forced labor outside the ghetto; smuggling food; his father's disappearance in August 1942 (he never saw him again); deportation of his mother and sister in January 1943; obtaining false papers from a non-Jew for him and his brother, hoping to escape; participating in the 1943 ghetto uprising; deportation with his brother to Majdanek; public hangings; pointless slave labor; beatings resulting in permanent injuries, for which he receives reparation payments; avoiding selections with assistance from others; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; helping his brother; assistance from a Polish supervisor; his former professor sending food, clothing, and money through the supervisor; transfer to Buchenwald, then Schleiben in summer 1944; slave labor in a munitions factory; assistance from a German supervisor; sabotaging their work; transfer to Bautzen; a death march to Mikulášovice; abandonment by the guards; and liberation by Polish troops on May 8, 1945. Mr. F. notes many Jews and non-Jews who helped him survive, and sending his former professor and German supervisor money from the United States. He shows photographs and documents.
    Author/Creator
    F., Marian, 1917-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
    Interview Date
    April 14, 1991.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Lʹviv (Ukraine)
    Mikulášovice (Czech Republic)
    Cite As
    Marian F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1781). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Sicular, Lilian, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 4 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Soviet occupation.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    False papers.
    Ghettos Songs and music.
    Mutual aid.
    Postwar experiences.
    Postwar effects.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296133
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:58:00
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