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Peretz H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3569)

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Peretz H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927, the fifth of six children. He recounts harassment as the only Jew in his public school class; his oldest brother's military draft in 1938; German invasion; learning his brother was taken as a Soviet prisoner of war; another brother leaving to find him; anti-Jewish abuse and restrictions; ghettoization; his father's death from starvation; his older two brothers escaping; smuggling food into the ghetto with his younger brother Zalman; escaping to live as non-Jews; singing Polish songs for food and money; several escapes from Poles who suspected they were Jews; receiving assistance from Poles (some knew they were Jews, others did not); Zalman re-entering the ghetto to obtain goods to sell, and being caught in the uprising; Zalman escaping and rejoining him; brief employment as a night watchman, which provided a place to stay; taking food to a hidden Jew; selling cigarettes with other street children; obtaining false papers through the Jewish underground; registering as Poles; arrest for making an anti-German joke; and release the next day.

    Mr. H. recalls he and Zalman participating in the Polish uprising with Armia Krajowa; surrender; transport to Ożarów; transfer to Stalag VIII B (Lamsdorf), then IV B (Mühlberg); receiving Red Cross parcels; forced labor in an airplane factory; antisemitic harassment by non-Jewish Polish prisoners; assistance from their German supervisor; liberation by Soviet troops from an evacuation march; separation from Zalman; traveling with a Soviet unit, then returning to Warsaw; reunion with an older brother; joining Zalman in Kraków; living on a kibbutz; protection from anti-Jewish violence by Soviet troops; traveling to Czechoslovakia, then Biberach displaced persons camp; assistance from UNRRA; illegal emigration by ship from Marseille to Palestine; interdiction by the British; brief incarceration; training with the Palmaḥ; serving in the Arab-Israeli war; being wounded; marriage; and the births of three sons. Mr. H. discusses nightmares resulting from his experiences, and sharing his experiences in schools and military training. He shows photographs, documents, his book, and sings Polish songs.
    Author/Creator
    H., Peretz, 1927-
    Published
    Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
    Interview Date
    July 29, August 6, and August 13, 1993.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Germany
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Ożarów (Poland)
    Kraków (Poland)
    Marseille (France)
    Palestine
    Cite As
    Peretz H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3569). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Notes
    This testimony is in Hebrew.
    Related publications: Le-haʻez li-ḥeyot / Perets Hokhman. -- Tel-Aviv : Miśrad ha-biṭaḥon, c1991.
    Related material: Zalman H. Holocaust testimony [brother] (HVT-3638), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    3 videorecordings (9 hr., 1 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Escapes.
    Child survivors.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Antisemitism Prewar.
    Hiding.
    Mutual aid.
    False papers.
    Postwar experiences.
    Antisemitism Postwar.
    Postwar effects.
    Warsaw ghetto.
    Subjects
    Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Brothers. Oral histories (document genres) World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. Prisoners of war--Germany. Prisoners of war--Poland. Forced labor. Refugee camps. Nightmares. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising of 1944. Ożarów (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Marseille (France) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. H., Peretz,--1927- Poland.--Polskie Siły Zbrojne.--Armia Krajowa. Stalag VIII B Lamsdorf. Stalag IV B. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Palmaḥ.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4298293
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:40:00
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