LEADER 03624cpd a2200469 a 4500001 4298233 005 20180530115141.0 008 980731s1993 ctu heb d 035 HVT-3543 035 4298233 035 |9FLX2527YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005119254 090 |bHVT-3543 100 1 G., Alvin, |d1919- 245 10 Alvin G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3543) |h[videorecording], |fMay 6, 1993. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1993. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Alvin G., who was born in Kroměříž, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1919, one of four children. He recalls a pleasant childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; joining Makabi ha-tsaʻir at age ten and spending summers at their camps; becoming the leader in his town; completing gymnasium; studying carpentry; training and certification in Prague in industrial housing; studying architecture starting in 1938; spending the summer of 1939 at a hachsharah; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his expulsion from school; confiscation of his father's business; having to wear the star; teaching and living at the Prague Makabi ha-tsaʻir club; transport to Theresienstadt in November 1941 (he was instructed to volunteer by a Zionist leader); his assignment to prepare plans for prefabricated housing; delivering the plans to the Jewish head, Jacob Edelstein; observing delivery of structures in 1943 that were based on his plan; and remaining in Theresienstadt until May 1945. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 506 This testimony can only be viewed at Yale by Yale faculty and/or students. 540 This testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication. 500 This testimony is not complete. 524 Alvin G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3543). 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 G., Alvin, |d1919- 600 10 Edelstein, Jacob, |d-1944. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87920486 610 20 Gordonyah--Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80006708 610 20 Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065698 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 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Kroměříž (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81146784 651 0 Prague (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055764 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4677708 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3543) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/z02z31p204 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/