LEADER 06173cpd a2200817 a 4500001 4297293 005 20180604132848.0 008 980731s1991 ctu heb d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702235456 035 HVT-3249 035 |9FLX1582YL 035 4297293 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702158852 090 |bHVT-3249 100 1 W., Iaakov, |d1926- 245 10 Iaakov W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3249) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Tamar Shushan and Uri Lapidot, |fNovember 6, 1991. 260 Ramat Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1991. 300 1 videorecording (4 hr., 36 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Iaakov W., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; being caught in random round-ups for forced labor; his family's move to his grandfather's farm in Proszowice; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his grandfather giving the farm to one of his Polish employees; working in a sugar refinery; his father paying a non-Jew to hide his youngest brother; his brother's arrival before their deportation to Prokocim; escaping with his father; entering the Kraków ghetto; slave labor building Płaszów; digging pits for mass shootings; public hangings; transfer to another camp for six months, then to Oskar Schindler's factory; separation from his father; deportation to Mauthausen; assignment to the quarry; transfer to Gusen twelve days later; slave labor in a Messerschmitt factory; public hangings; prisoners freezing to death during a roll call; a German guard giving him food; transfer back to Mauthausen; a death march to Gelsenkirchen; lying on a pile of corpses; liberation by United States troops; many deaths from overeating; acts of revenges, particularly by Soviets; breaking into homes as his revenge; learning his father had not survived; transfer to a displaced persons camp; traveling to Bari with the Jewish Brigade; illegal emigration to Palestine by boat; interdiction by the British; and incarceration on Cyprus. Mr. W. discusses relations between ethnic groups of prisoners and witnessing cannibalism. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 540 This testimony can only be used for the purpose of remembrance. 524 Iaakov W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3249). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 W., Iaakov, |d1926- 610 20 Płaszów (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97030354 610 20 Mauthausen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065604 610 20 Gusen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029613 610 20 Gelsenkirchen (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003103855 610 20 Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81110967 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 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews |zPoland |zKraków. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Fathers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Revenge. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420 650 0 Cannibalism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019617 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xFamily relationships. 650 0 Quarries and quarrying. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85109481 650 0 Death marches. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Kraków (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125145 651 0 Proszowice (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2013024628 651 0 Bari (Italy) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054584 651 0 Palestine |xEmigration and immigration. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165 651 0 Cyprus. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055857 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Prokocim (Poland : Concentration camp) 691 4 Kraków ghetto. 700 1 Shushan, Tamar, |einterviewer. 700 1 Lapidot, Uri, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676750 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3249) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/gm81j97g15 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/