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980731s1995 ctu fre d
a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Auguste V. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3471)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Elisabeth Inchusta and Michel Rosenfeldt,
f| February 15, 1995.
a| Brussels, Belgium :
b| Fondation Auschwitz,
c| 1995.
a| 1 videorecording (3 hr., 26 min.) :
b| col.
a| Videotape testimony of Auguste V., a Roman-Catholic, born in Mouscron, Belgium in 1920, one of eleven children. He recalls receiving his diploma as an auto mechanic in 1938; sheltering German Jewish refugees; twice daily prayers at home; working in Liège; German invasion; returning home; briefly fleeing to Bailleul, France; participating in the Resistance; his family hiding Jews; learning his arrest was imminent; fleeing to La Rochefoucauld in March 1943; arrest; incarceration in Angoulême and Poitiers; deportation from Compiègne to Buchenwald in June; remaining with one friend; slave labor in a quarry; transfer to the garage, then Gustloffwerke I; transport to Laura; working in the garage, a privileged position; receiving food from the civilian boss and German soldiers; sharing packages from home; evacuation in April 1945; escaping with four others; liberation by United States troops eleven days later; assistance from the Red Cross; returning home from Bamberg in May; learning all his brothers had survived; emigration to the Congo; and return to Belgium in 1961. Mr. V. discusses group relations in the camps; attending mass in Compiègne; prisoners' brutality toward friends due to circumstances; visiting Buchenwald and Laura with his wife and children in 1990; and the inhumanity of the SS.
a| This testimony is in French.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Auguste V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3471). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
a| Laura (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00065823
a| Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997
a| International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Belgian.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113917
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Underground movements
z| Belgium.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113865
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Prisoners and prisons, German.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474
a| Concentration camp inmates
x| Religious life.
a| Concentration camps
x| Sociological aspects.
a| Concentration camp inmates.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96000020
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Concentration camps
x| Psychological aspects.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590
a| Escapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783
a| Belgium.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126041
a| Mouscron (Belgium)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85308306
a| Liège (Belgium)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79145886
a| Bailleul (Nord, France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84056296
a| La Rochefoucauld (France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97053138
a| Angoulême (France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81071978
a| Poitiers (France)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091184
a| Bamberg (Germany)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80139571
a| Congo (Democratic Republic)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061022
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Survivor-child relations.
a| Compiègne (Concentration camp)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99021201
a| Compiègne (France : Concentration camp)
a| Gustloffwerke I (Germany : Concentration camp)
a| Inchusta, Elisabeth,
e| interviewer.
a| Rosenfeldt, Michel,
e| interviewer.
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3471)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/2z12n4zm1h
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/