Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Joe K., who was born in Uniejów, Poland in 1928, one of three children. He recounts his father's death when he was three; living with his grandparents; attending cheder; yearly visits to his father's grave in Łódź; antisemitic harassment; an uncle visiting from England; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; transfer to the Dzierzbotki ghetto; building a bunker in the forest with others; hiding there during round-ups; he and his mother being captured by the Germans; their deportation to a labor camp; separation from her en route (he never saw her again); slave labor; singing to keep up their spirits; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor for I. G. Farben in Buna/Monowitz; public hangings; a kapo assigning him a privileged position; British POWs giving him food; brief hospitalization; a death march, then train transfer to Nordhausen; working in an underground rocket factory; Allied bombings; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; cannibalism; working for the British army in Münster; exacting revenge on SS prisoners; learning a cousin was alive in Austria; traveling to see her; returning to Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; locating his uncle in England; emigrating to join him; treatment for mental illness resulting from his experiences; marriage; and adopting a daughter. Mr. K. discusses the varying status of concentration camp prisoners; losing his faith in God; and not wanting his daughter to carry his memories, despite knowing his story.
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- January 25, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Uniejów
Dzierzbotki
England
Uniejów (Łódź, Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Austria
Münster (Niedersachsen, Germany) - Cite As
- Joe K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2380). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust 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 (2 hr., 58 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Hiding.
Forests.
Bunkers.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Uniejów. Jews--Poland--Dzierzbotki. Forced labor. Concentration camps--Songs and music. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Prisoners of war--Poland. Prisoners of war--England. Death marches. Cannibalism. Refugee camps. Revenge. Faith. Poland. Uniejów (Łódź, Poland) Łódź (Poland) Austria. Münster (Niedersachsen, Germany) Oral histories (document genres) K., Joe,--1928- Birkenau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp) Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. Nordhausen (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296759
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:51:00
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