- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Isak F., who was born in Wolbrom, Poland in 1922. He recounts his father's death when he was a baby; his mother supporting four children; her remarriage when he was ten; studying and working in Będzin and Łódź beginning in 1936; returning home in summer 1939; German invasion; capture by SS men (he never saw his family again); slave labor in Rzeszów for a year; transfer to Płaszów, Wieliczka, Klinker, Flossenbürg, Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Colmar, Hamburg, and Bergen,Belsen; escaping with a Soviet POW; capture; imprisonment in Hamburg; transfer to Sandbostel POW camp; becoming very ill; friends trying to save him; liberation by British troops; hospitalization; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; meeting his future wife (she joins him); assistance from the Joint; living in Bad Nauheim; emigration to the United States in 1946; assistance from HIAS; and marriage. Mr. F. discusses many incidents of camp life; Jews and non-Jews who helped him survive; taking chances by often volunteering in camps; and still suffering from the loss of his entire family. Ann F. notes their good fortune in living in and raising their children in the United States.
- Author/Creator
- F., Isak, 1922-
- Published
- Kansas City, Kansas : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, 1994
- Interview Date
- July 5, 1994.
- Locale
- Germany
Poland
Wolbrom (Poland)
Będzin (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Hamburg (Germany)
- Cite As
- Isak and Ann F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2611). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Maidhof, James, interviewer.
Maidhof, Jill, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Ann F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2612), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
