LEADER 05282cpd a2200661 a 4500001 4296760 005 20180529115829.0 008 980731s1991 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702235281 035 HVT-2381 035 |9FLX1045YL 035 4296760 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702158470 090 |bHVT-2381 100 1 S., Aron, |d1930- 245 10 Aron S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2381) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by David Herman and Elliot Perry, |fJanuary 31, 1991. 260 London, England : |bBritish Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1991. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 50 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Aron S., who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1930. He recalls Sabbath and holiday meals at his maternal grandparents; attending a Jewish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; summers with a priest's family; German occupation in 1940; his bar mitzvah on July 10, 1943; going into hiding with his family on October 1, 1943 (as did most Danish Jews), waiting for boats to Sweden; being caught; one week imprisonment; transfer to Gedser; transport by boat to Warnemunde, Germany, then cattle trains to Theresienstadt; separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival, then from his father in December; brief hospitalization; living in a boys' barrack until summer 1944; transfer with his family and all other Danes to special accommodations; receiving Red Cross packages; trading and sharing the extra food; sham improvements for a Red Cross visit; seeing a pile of corpses (he still has nightmares about this); having to load deportation trains, which included many of his friends, knowing they were bound for Auschwitz; Swedish buses arriving in April 1945 to transport the Danes; observing the destruction of Dresden and Potsdam en route; a hero's welcome in Denmark; staying in Odense en route to Sweden; living in a camp; returning to Denmark after the war; becoming an architect; marriage; his son and daughter attending Jewish camps; divorce; emigration to England; and his son's death in Israel. Mr. S. discusses his reluctance to share his experiences until 1978, and finding his family's names when visiting Theresienstadt in 1990. He shows photographs. 524 Aron S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2381). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 S., Aron, |d1930- 610 20 Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065698 610 20 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish children in the Holocaust. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877 650 0 Bar mitzvah. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011761 650 0 Families. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047009 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Nightmares. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091914 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 651 0 Denmark. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021597 651 0 Copenhagen (Denmark) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043343 651 0 Gedser (Denmark) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93099881 651 0 Warnemünde (Rostock, Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83300646 651 0 Dresden (Germany) |xHistory |yBombardment, 1945. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007262 651 0 Potsdam (Germany) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50057895 651 0 Odense (Denmark) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034474 651 0 Sweden. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021184 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Hospitals in concentration camps. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 700 1 Perry, Elliot, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676214 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2381) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/6t0gt5fg8f 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/