LEADER 06665cpd a2200829 a 4500001 4297451 005 20180604132524.0 008 980731s1992 ctu heb d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702235504 035 HVT-3343 035 |9FLX1743YL 035 4297451 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702158959 090 |bHVT-3343 100 1 B., Simcha, |d1912-2014. 245 10 Simcha B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3343) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Nathan Beyrak, |fMay 13, 1992. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1992. 300 1 videorecording (3 hr., 41 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Simcha B., who was born in Izbica, Poland in 1912, one of six children. He recalls attending public school; working in a pharmacy; serving in the Polish army; moving to Warsaw in 1938; German invasion; returning with his sister to Izbica; one brother fleeing to the Soviet zone; traveling to Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ in the Soviet zone; returning to retrieve his sister; not being able to leave; forced labor cleaning roads; his father's deportation (he never saw him again); hiding during round-ups; his sisters' and mother's deportations; transfer to a labor camp for two months; returning home; deportation with his remaining family to Sobibór; volunteering as a pharmacist with his brother; assisting fellow prisoners; public execution of randomly chosen prisoners after escapes; poisoning a kapo who endangered their escape plans; acquiring and hiding weapons; mass shooting of men whose escape plan was discovered; arrival of a prisoner who was a Soviet officer; his organizing an escape; finding his brother after the escape (hundreds of the escapees were killed); hiding in a forest near Izbica, then with a Polish friend; leaving when warned that members of the AK were looking for them; hiding with another Polish friend; liberation by Soviet troops; return of his other brother from the Soviet Union; traveling to Zamość via Krasnystaw; marriage to a woman he met in Sobibór; arrest by the AK; release by Soviets; his son's birth; his wife, brother and sister-in-law traveling illegally to Germany; joining them; living in Berlin, then Heidenheim displaced persons camps; a visit by David Ben-Gurion; and emigration to Israel. Mr. B. describes life in Sobibór; the arrival of transports including killings on the unloading ramp; and participating in war crimes trials of Sobibór officials, including Gustav Wagner, Karl Frenzel, Franz Wolf, and Hubert Gomerski. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 540 This testimony may not be used in any publication without the donor's consent. 524 Simcha B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3343). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 544 1 |dRelated material: Philip B. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-198),Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 544 1 |dRelated material: Philip B. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-2703),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 B., Simcha, |d1912-2014. 600 10 Ben-Gurion, David, |d1886-1973. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007677 600 10 Wagner, Gustav, |d1911-1980. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014206660 600 10 Frenzel, Karl. 600 10 Gomerski, Hubert. 610 20 Sobibór (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96096755 610 10 Poland. |bPolskie Siły Zbrojne. |bArmia Krajowa. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80149707 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 |xParticipation, Polish. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xParticipation, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148460 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Prisoners of war |zPoland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010108343 650 0 Brothers. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017223 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xUnderground movements |zPoland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119158 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 650 0 War crime trials |zGermany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91002408 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Izbica Lubelska (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99280194 651 0 Warsaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018894 651 0 Volodymyr-Volynsʹkyĭ (Ukraine) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82040137 651 0 Zamość (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81084475 651 0 Krasnystaw (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88262254 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Forests. 690 4 Concentration camps |xUnderground movements. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Partisans. 690 4 Antisemitism |yPostwar. 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Berlin (Germany : Refugee camp) 691 4 Heidenheim (Germany : Refugee camp) 700 1 Beyrak, Nathan, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676910 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3343) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/2z12n4zk8d 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/